1. First of all, understand this: a true outdoor adventure is not simply a tour or mountaineering, it is a battle with nature, a life-and-death challenge.
2. Every outdoor sacred place is engraved with a history of blood and tears, which is not a fictional story, but an ironclad truth. In the case of the Aotai Line, for example, 46 people died in five years, most of them due to hypothermia.
3. Outdoor adventure subverts the common sense of conventional survival and takes the initiative to meet risks. In this regard, we are neutral, and even some people, including myself, are clearly opposed to risk-taking.
4. Outdoor adventure is a part of survival skills, which can exercise people's will and ability, but it also comes with great risks. Before you have sufficient capacity and financial resources, you should be cautious.
5. Blind risk-taking can hurt oneself and others. Taking the Fudan 18 donkey incident as a mirror, a young policeman sacrificed his life to rescue them, but these 18 people disregarded their lives and were extremely ungrateful.
1. Risk Factors for Outdoor Adventure:
(1) Accidents: From sunburn to falling off a cliff, it is a dual threat of daily life and outdoors.
(2) Geology: natural forces such as flash floods, rockfalls, landslides, and magnetic fields are difficult to predict.
(3) Meteorology: wind, rain, thunder and lightning, climate change is impermanent, and it may go through four seasons in a short period of time.
(4) Organisms: microorganisms, insects, snakes, scorpions, wild animals, and creatures in nature are also challenges.
(5) Physiology: Altitude sickness and other physical adaptation problems.
(6) Others: insufficient supply, equipment failure, damage, malfunction, loss, such as the GPS locator of Fudan 18 donkey failed due to water ingress.
2. Typical case analysis:
1. The Prison Mountain Incident:
They are not buddies, they are jobs. This was very popular in the bar at the time, and the official report was hypothermia.
According to an interview with Red Star News:
They have participated in field exploration for a year or two, have been trained in instrument operation for a short time, and have listened to field safety lectures.
The vice president of the Yunnan Mountaineering and Outdoor Sports Association said: The four people have strong ability and rich experience in wild life.
Wang Yu, a senior geological expert, believes that the four people do not have enough understanding of the local climate, natural geographical characteristics and change laws of Ailao Mountain, and their sense of crisis and emergency response is not strong, and they lack foresight and underestimation when facing the danger of life.
Gong Bo, an expert with experience in geological surveys, believes that it may be that the four investigators are careless, lack of foreknowledge of difficulties, and lack of corresponding preparations.
2. Gansu Silver Marathon:
Baiyin City has once again entered people's perspectives, last time it was Gao Chengyong, this time it was a marathon.
In late May 2021, the venue was in the Yellow River Stone Forest Scenic Area, and suddenly encountered strong winds, cooling, freezing rain, and hail, causing 21 people to die of hypothermia. Look at the description may be caused by strong convection.
At that time, the organizers distributed first-aid blankets, but no one had one, and the problem was that almost no one could use it.
3. Liuyang River Tracing Incident:
In July 2023, a family of five traced the river in the Daguang Cave Scenic Area in Liuyang, when the weather forecast reported that there was no rain, so don't take the weather forecast too seriously, because the weather in the mountainous area is changeable, and sudden rainfall, the water volume soars, and the creek becomes a flash flood, resulting in one death and one loss.
Moreover, at that time, there were outdoor bloggers who shared their experience that it was common for a creek to become a flash flood, so don't be careless whether it rains or not.
4. Fudan 18 donkey:
Eighteen Fudan students (it was later confirmed that only 10 Fudan students, both undergraduate and postgraduate), went to explore the undeveloped area of Huangshan, they had no outdoor experience, and they still got lost at night, just after entering. With GPS, he was accidentally flooded by a pig teammate. Finally, with a weak mobile phone signal, a distress message was sent.
The person in charge summoned more than 200 public security and fire officers to the rescue, and although the rescue was successful, a young policeman was killed.
Afterwards, these 18 goods, not to mention mourning the dead police, first discussed how to do a good job in crisis public relations, indifferent to the sacrifice of the police, did not admit mistakes, and shirked responsibility.
5. Guangdong Zhaoqing off-road incident:
Not long ago, the Dinghu Mountain 100 cross-country race should have encountered strong convection, but the problem is that the weather forecast has been predicted before, and the organizers still continue to hold it.
Sudden rainstorms, thunderstorms, and flash floods, the contestants pulled the ropes and struggled to move forward, and they had to squat down to avoid lightning, and there were flash floods on the way, and they were accompanied by tree falls and collapses, and they crossed the turbulent streams in a thrilling way.
Thankfully, there were no casualties.
6. Aotai Line:
From May 4 to 14, 2017, a total of 4 teams and 41 people participated in the crossing, and finally 2 people were amputated and 3 people were killed.
A typical case is a snowstorm at Shuiwozi Camp, which caused some people to lose contact.
Let's talk about the Aotai line:
Clouds and mist all year round, the weather is myriad, the wind and clouds are changing, and you are caught off guard. The climate of Ao Tai District is even more complex and changeable, with four seasons in a day, with strong winds, heavy rain, hail, heavy rain, dense fog, ice and snow, steep mountain peaks, and a vast sea of rocks all year round. It can be called: the forbidden area of life, the line of death.
The picture shows the desirable sea of nine-fold stones: [Picture]
7, Heizhugou - another forbidden area of life, also known as "China Bermuda".
Heizhugou is called the valley of death by the local Yi people, the same as the Aotai line, there are four seasons in a day, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the perennial humidity is heavy, poisonous snakes, fierce beasts, poisonous insects, miasma, dark rivers. It is said that any animal or animal enters and there is no return.
A large number of iron-bearing basalts produce magnetic fields, compasses fail, and carrier pigeons cannot fly out and may also be disturbed by magnetic fields, which are about 60 kilometers long. In 2007, the CCTV "Approaching Science" shooting team put 4 carrier pigeons inside, and all of them went and never returned.
On August 16, 2014, 5 travelers entered Heizhugou for an expedition. 2 people died, 3 people mysteriously went missing.
8. Frozen to death on the top of Wutai Mountain:
The five summits of Wutai Mountain and the surrounding areas have deep ravines and complex terrain, harsh winter climate, deep snow, extremely low temperature, and complex and changeable meteorology, which are very prone to accidents such as getting lost, losing contact, and casualties.
In December 2020, three hikers got lost due to strong winds and snow and were trapped on the top of the mountain, and finally two people froze to death.