Everyone has their own Mount Everest in their hearts, and if you want to climb, you need a never-say-die climbing spirit.
It sounds like a chicken soup, but if you have seen the autobiography of Teacher Xia Boyu in "Endless Climbing", you will find that this sentence is a portrayal of him for decades, and his persistence and hard work have touched and inspired countless people.
And now this "Endless Climb" is also reproduced as a documentary, and Teacher Xia Boyu has made long-term and continuous efforts to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 41 years.
Xia Boyu, 25, is determined to climb the unattainable Mount Everest. But it was just a dream at the time, and at the age of 26 he finally had the opportunity to climb Everest.
On the first climb, Xia Boyu was a little nervous, because to climb the ladder set up on the ice crack, if you were not careful, you would fall into the bottomless crack.
In order to climb safely, Xia Boyu used all fours together, carefully lying on the metal ladder, not daring to blink at once, and carefully climbing upwards one by one.
Affected by the temperature difference, the wind will often blow the tent to shake, the frost will continue to shake on the sleeping bag, the frost is enough to bury people, but even such a harsh environment, did not shake Xia Boyu's determination to move forward.
Not only that, in the process of climbing, some people will have altitude sickness, and some people will also have hallucinations.
At any time, he was facing danger to his life, but such a harsh environment had never stopped Xia Boyu's determination to climb upwards.
Many times when Xia Boyu was moving forward, there was no road on the ridge, and there was no snow on the slope, and there were no footprints, so he could only find a place where he could get his feet and move forward step by step.
However, as I walked, there was no road left, only huge rock walls, and countless ice cracks under my feet, and if I didn't pay attention, it was the cliff of the abyss.
There is no door forward here, no way back, no way up and down, can only hang in mid-air, making Xia Boyu a little scared, thinking that he is going to freeze to death here. However, he constantly told himself that he must be calm, and if he wants to live, he must not panic, but must save himself.
In this way, without any support, he grasped the crack in the rock, and under the strong desire to survive, he used extraordinary strength to squirm upwards little by little, and finally found a relatively wide ridge.
For Xia Boyu, the faith that supports him to survive in danger is not only the faith of reaching the top, but also the recognition of composure and calmness from the danger, so that he can have a more correct judgment, and at the critical time, the most important thing to give up is self-salvation.
Only by living can we have countless possibilities, can we accomplish our goals, and strengthen our faith, and only in this way can we rely on perseverance and persistence, and a clear mind to complete the mission.
The 26-year-old Xia Boyu originally thought that he and his teammates could successfully reach the top, but there was an accident that caused him to lose his feet.
During the overnight stay in the 7600-meter camp, one of the team members accidentally rolled down the cliff because of physical exhaustion, and this mistake on Mount Everest was enough to freeze people to death.
Looking at his teammates shivering with cold, Xia Boyu was too unbearable, he thought he was young enough and had great firepower, so he gave up his sleeping bag to his teammates, but he did not frostbite his feet, and finally he was so serious that he could only amputate his limbs.
But even Xia Boyu, who put on a prosthetic leg, did not give up the belief in climbing Mount Everest.
But for normal people, it is difficult to climb Mount Everest, not to mention that for Xia Boyu, who has no feet, it takes more efforts and hardships than ordinary people to do physical training.
After the amputation, Xia Boyu began to practice strength in the ward in order to continue to climb the summit, he tied the sandbag to his legs, lay on the bed and lifted his feet high, doing the same movement as a bicycle, taking the prosthesis to do the leg lifting movement, practicing push-ups and sit-ups.
For Xia Boyu at this time, a day without training, a day without taking a cold bath is like something missing, even if it is pain, even if it is a weakness in his legs when practicing walking, the shivering cannot make him have the slightest retreat.
When I saw this, I was deeply touched, these things even if people in good health can not do, but Xia Boyu did it, endure pain, endure torture, he has never been afraid of pain, afraid of suffering, but again and again to challenge his limits.
However, fate did not let him go, in 1996 when Xia Boyu was diagnosed with cancer, because after amputation, continuous strength practice, resulting in infection, and eventually turned into cancer, in the face of this sudden disaster, he still did not flinch.
In Xia Boyu's view, he still had to fight the disease with exercise and was determined to overcome it, so that during the radiation therapy, he ignored nausea and general weakness, began to exercise on a bicycle every day, and finally came out of the shadow of cancer.
Since then, Xia Boyu will get up at 5 o'clock every day for an hour and a half of strength and physical training, including 150 times per group, a total of 10 groups of 10 kg sandbag squats, and 30 times per group, a total of 6 groups of dumbbell sit-ups with a weight of 4 kg, 60 times per group of 6 sets of push-ups and other strength exercises.
Seeing this data, the first reaction in my mind was how is it possible? How did Xia Boyu do these impossible things?
I think the reason why Xia Boyu was able to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 69 was not a whim, but a firm belief that he must climb Mount Everest, which allowed him to overcome all difficulties and make all the impossibilities possible.
This is the power of faith and the indestructible faith in the heart, so that Xia Boyu not only becomes an inspirational role model, but also turns his story into a legendary life.
After 41 years of hard work, Xia Boyu managed to reach the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 69, and he said a sentence in "Endless Climbing" that moved me to tears, he said:
People always move forward in overcoming difficulties and grow in overcoming themselves. The meaning of mountaineering is not only to conquer a certain mountain, or to reach a certain height, but more importantly, to grow up. When you break through your limits, reach places you can't get to, and then come back to life, life has an extraordinary meaning.
Yes, we work hard but do not want to give up, we bravely move forward, but the spirit of never giving up, no matter what kind of cruelty life brings us, all we can do is accept and move forward courageously.
We have worked hard to live up to our encounters; we have struggled to be qualified to say that we have lived; we have paid with our hearts and have no regrets about the years.
In the process of hard work and progress, what changes is the growth of our hearts, the ability to grow for life and the spirit of positive optimism.
And it is this spirit that inspires us to resolutely not give up when we encounter difficulties and obstacles, even if we endure loneliness, endure pain and loneliness, it is worth it in the end. Just like a poem written by Xia Boyu in "Endless Climbing":
Endure loneliness, endure danger
Forget the cold eyes, forget the pain
Do not skimp on your flesh and blood
May this life be complete
The light in the heart is never extinguished
I used the charcoal fire to reflect the wind and snow
I left my feet in the cracks of the cold rock
Because this is the ideal and life