A few days ago, 5 tourists who drove to Kailash's mountain were trapped in disregard of local meteorological warnings and police dissuasion, and caused 2 deaths and 3 injuries, which aroused public concern. (Red Star News previously reported: 5 people drove themselves in Kailash, Tibet during the Spring Festival, despite dissuasion to turn the mountain and was trapped, resulting in 2 deaths and 3 injuries)
It is reported that the five tourists in the incident are from Hubei, Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi and Sichuan. Previously, they met on social software to travel to Kailash, and then got stranded on February 2 on the way to the mountain, and after asking the local police for help, 3 of them were rescued and 2 others died.
On February 9, a rescue worker involved in the rescue told reporters about the night of the horrors of the difficult rescue. One of the survivors of the incident also responded to online voices, saying that everything was subject to police investigation.
↑ Search and rescue on the road
‖ Incident‖
5 people meet to get lost in the mountains
More than 100 local people participated in the search and rescue when they were found, 2 people were killed
"Turning the mountain" refers to the ritual of repeatedly walking around the spiritual mountain, which is a way of worshipping the sacred mountain.
Kailash Mountain is recognized as a "sacred mountain" in the world, located in Baga Township, Pulan County, Ali Region, Tibet Autonomous Region, attracting tens of thousands of tourists from home and abroad every year to visit the mountain. Due to its high altitude, tourists are trapped due to the turn of the mountain.
Before the Spring Festival in 2022, Liu, Huang, Tang, Ye and Xu from Hubei, Fujian, Yunnan, Guangxi and Sichuan met through social networking software and drove from Lhasa to Kailash on January 30, and then began their mountain journey on February 2.
However, 5 people were trapped that day. At 20:48 on the 2nd, they called the local police for help, saying that they had just lost their way down the Dormala Pass and needed rescue.
Immediately, ali district organized a total of 118 people, including public security and civilian auxiliary police, grass-roots cadres and farmers and herdsmen, to carry out search and rescue work.
According to public information, the dormala mountain pass is located on the north side of Kailash, the summit is about 5700 meters above sea level, the terrain is extremely steep, snow all year round, and there are strong winds. The location of the five trapped people at an altitude of 5630 meters is the most dangerous section of the road along the route, and it is winter, the local government issued an orange warning of blizzard, the temperature dropped to -24 °C, and the snow was as deep as 80 cm. In extreme weather, the search is also extremely difficult. Local rescue forces entered in two attempts to find the trapped people.
According to the official report, 3 of the 5 people, Liu, Huang and Tang, were rescued, and Ye and Xu lost their vital signs due to their bodies being in extreme cold and extremely hypoxic conditions for a long time.
According to the news website of the Geji County Government of Ali District of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in this incident, the five people involved were trapped in the area despite the weather department's wind and snow warning and the local public security auxiliary police and the masses' advice to return.
↑Pulan County Public Security Bureau Civilian Auxiliary Police officers search for trapped people on snowy and icy mountain roads
‖ narration‖
Rescue team members: a nightmare
"The snow was heavy at that time, and every 100 meters I walked was more tiring than when I went up Mount Everest."
On February 9, a Red Star News reporter contacted a rescue team member involved in the rescue, Xiao Yong (pseudonym), a local mountain leader. He was taking another group of tourists to the mountain and later participated in the first rescue.
Xiao Yong introduced that on the afternoon of February 2, when he turned over the dolmala mountain pass, he found that the wind direction was not right, so he spent 1500 yuan to find a rescue car to prepare to return. He introduced that when they got on the car, the wind and snow at the scene were already very large, and when they returned to their residence by car, they heard the news that someone was trapped on the mountain. Because he had experience in leading teams and rescues, he participated in the rescue together with the local police.
He told reporters that the first rescue forces set off in three teams, and one team took a secret passage to enter, "so that it can reach the dolmala mountain pass faster." Another team entered from the opposite direction, and he and four other police officers drove in.
Tarchin is the starting point of the mountain transfer activity, Xiao Yong told reporters, they set off from the starting point to the first line of the Zhige Temple. After traveling nearly 20 kilometers, when he was about to reach the Zhihe Temple, he found one of the tourists, Ye Mou, but at that time, Ye Mou had no vital signs.
Half an hour later, another team of rescue workers notified on the walkie-talkie that Tang and the others had been found in the opposite direction, but one of the accompanying personnel was also without vital signs.
Recalling the rescue experience, Xiao Yong said bluntly: "This is a nightmare, people are really too small in front of nature."
He said, "At that time, the snow was really big, and every hundred meters I walked was more tired than when I went up Mount Everest." In the live video taken by Xiao Yong, the reporter saw that the snow outside the car was very thick at that time, and the wind was quickly drifting with snow, and the line of sight was poor.
Xiao Yong introduced that during the rescue process, he gradually saw that many tourists on the way had high reactions and physical weakness. At about 10:30 that night, a strong wind blew in the rescue ground, and the visibility did not exceed 2 meters.
Xiao Yong said that he had participated in the Everest rescue many times, although this time the difficulty was not as difficult as the rescue of Everest, "but this time the snow was too big, the black pressure was too terrible, too terrible..." So that many people asked him about this rescue experience later, and he did not dare to say it again.
‖ netizens‖
A donkey friend posted that he was "almost ready"
Before the incident, he joined the Mountain Group
The reporter noticed that after the incident, on the social platform, a donkey friend in the circle posted on the social platform that he was "almost completed". The donkey friend named Hannah told reporters that she had originally planned to go to Kailash to turn mountains in the New Year, so she added a 6-person New Year's mountain group, but because many friends told her that it was dangerous to turn mountains in winter, and her family told her to go home for the New Year, she dismissed this idea.
After learning that Kailash's donkey friends who turned the mountain had an accident, she said that she "giggled" in her heart, "Pray not to be them, but it is really the group of mountains that was added before." She immediately sent a message to the group to inquire, but there was no response, saying, "I really hope they can come back safely!" And thinking that she was almost about to make the trip, she was still a little afraid.
In this accident, many netizens questioned the hasty behavior of 5 tourists who did not listen to dissuasion.
↑ A netizen claimed to have almost walked with 5 people
‖ Survivors‖
Posted that "two people stepped into the glacier"
Denying that he is the leader of the mountain, he has cooperated with the police investigation
The reporter noted that on February 1, a small red book user named "Xiao Tang, the leader of the self-driving free travel in Tibetan areas", posted a note saying that he and the other 4 people gathered in Lhasa, "Two days of wild running 1200 kilometers, just in order to catch the heavy snow (the weather forecast has heavy snow on the third day of the first month) to turn the mountain, the local people have advised us not to go up the mountain, Dolma Yakou snow is deeper than the knee, come and go, don't go, isn't it a pity?" Today, let's explore the way to the Zhige Temple. ”
The reporter learned that the user is the survivor Tang in the report, and on the way to the mountain afterwards, Tang mentioned in the text, "After crossing the pass, two people stepped into the glacier and wet their pants and shoes." You take off your pants and shoes, get into your sleeping bags, and sit in the open air, waiting for rescue. However, at present, Tang has cancelled the account.
↑ Tang Mou's previous dynamics
It is understood that Tang is from Wusheng County, Guang'an, Sichuan. According to a team leader named Yuan Gang (pseudonym), he and Tang had brought an outdoor group together before, and he was the leader and Tang was the deputy leader.
Yuan Gang told reporters that Tang Mou is a very high-profile person who likes to take risks, "Obviously a mature route does not go, he wants to take those routes that no one goes." When he and Tang were once leading a regiment of more than 40 people, Tang and 6 female team members did not take the main road, walked towards the remote mountain forest, and finally got lost, "almost froze to death." He once reminded Tang to pay attention to safety, but Tang always said that he had bought insurance, so after that time, Yuan Gang no longer cooperated with him, saying that the risk was too great.
According to Yuan Gang, Tang only has two or three years of outdoor team leadership experience, and outdoor travel is not like ordinary travel, and will face many uncertainties. Tang never took kailash this line, only to 318, Qinghai Lake Ring Road, Tengger Desert and other more mature commercial routes, "Everyone knows that in winter that place can not go to the mountain." ”
As for whether Tang is the leader of this transfer, in an interview with other media, Tang has denied it, saying that the five people are just playing in a team together, and they are responsible for driving and related expenses during the trip. However, according to people familiar with the matter, long-term tours like this generally have a tour leader organization, and all the fees are advanced by the tour leader at the beginning, and then the AA system is made after the end of the journey.
On the afternoon of February 9, a Red Star News reporter contacted Tang Mou, who told reporters that he was cooperating with the police investigation, the matter had been resolved, and he was about to return to Chengdu. As for whether he is the leader of the team, Tang mou denied it, saying that everything was subject to the police investigation, "If I am really the leader, I have long been controlled." The three of us survivors have provided all the information to the police, and there are live footage. He said that the media has hyped him up very much, "Originally I was completely irresponsible, and now I have been fired as the leader." ”
‖ follow-up ‖
Local residents said that "no one dares to go in winter"
The families of the victims are travelling to the area to deal with the aftermath
According to a local shop owner, on January 31, 5 people from Tang's group stayed in their shop. His shop is located more than 4,000 meters above sea level, more than 20 kilometers from the beginning of the mountain, "they bought instant noodles in the store at that time, ate and left." According to local residents, due to the snow, "no one dares to go (turning the mountain) in winter." ”
According to media reports, in recent years, due to the increase in tourists turning the mountain, the news that tourists are trapped has occurred from time to time. In this regard, the local public security organs also issued a reminder that the Kailash scenic spot is cold and hypoxic, the natural environment is harsh, especially from the end of November to the end of April of the following year, ice and snow disasters are frequent, there are many uncertain safety hazards, calling on the majority of tourists to cherish life, respect nature, scientific arrangements, rational travel.
At present, the families of the victims are traveling to the local area to deal with the aftermath. Tang and the other two survivors are also cooperating with the police investigation.
↑ At the search and rescue scene, lying on the ground was the victim Xu Mou
Red Star News reporter Zhang Ling intern Jin Ruozhen According to the interviewee
Edited by Yu Manga
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