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In December 2019, a grassroots Internet celebrity who came out of rural Sichuan, known as "Brother Glacier", took his work to the United Nations Climate Change Conference and shared his glacier film, calling on the public, protecting the environment, and taking action on climate, starting with the record.
However, just a year later, the glacier brother, whose brilliant moment of life has just begun, is forever separated from his fans because of an accident. After the unfortunate death of Brother Glacier, the process of his distress caused various speculations on the Internet. Today we will talk about the sensational Tibetan Adventure King incident.
Glacier Brother, whose real name is Wang Xiangjun, was born in 1990 to a rural family in Leng's hometown in Linshui County, Sichuan Province. There were two boys in the family, Wang Xiangjun was the eldest son, and a younger brother Wang Long, who was two years younger than him. Wang Xiangjun has loved climbing mountains since he was a child and has excellent academic performance, but he unexpectedly failed the college entrance examination and failed to get into the ideal university. In 2009, Wang Xiangjun went to a high school in Linshui County to repeat his studies. However, he soon learned that his parents had given everything in the family in order to provide him with education, so he resolutely dropped out of school and came to Shenzhen to work.
In 2012, Wang Xiangjun accidentally saw a photo of a Tibetan glacier, and as if he had been hit by a demon, he was deeply attracted to Tibet. Subsequently, Wang Xiangjun quit his job, used the money saved from part-time work, bought a bus ticket to go to Tibet, and successively worked in Nyingchi, Bomi, Nagqu, Lhasa and other places while working to earn money while watching glaciers. The beauty of Tibet is fluid, and the seasons are different throughout the year. Not many people have truly seen the beauty of Tibet. Wang Xiangjun, on the other hand, is one of a very small number of people.
After leaving Tibet, Wang Xiangjun went to Xinjiang again. In the past seven years, Wang Xiangjun has visited more than 70 glaciers.
In 2017, he opened an account on the short video platform. The total number of uploaded videos is more than four hundred, and the platform is nicknamed "King of Tibetan Adventure". Netizens affectionately call him "Lao Wang", or "Glacier Brother". By the end of 2020, Glacier Brother's fans in Douyin have reached more than 3 million, and 1.59 million fans in Kuaishou. With the increase in the popularity of short videos, the income of Brother Glacier has also been guaranteed. He no longer had to work and travel to support his expenses. Later, Wang Xiangjun also took out 400,000 yuan to rebuild the house for his parents and brother in his hometown.
Wang Xiangjun does not like the label of "internet celebrity" very much. He thinks he's different from those who make money with traffic, and he thinks that what is recorded under his lens is meaningful.
From his films, it can also be seen that he is a true love of nature and an explorer who indulges in glaciers. He records everything in front of him with the most simple lens.
Wang Xiangjun's video footage has become a first-hand source of glaciers and climate change over the years. In many of the videos he shoots, some glaciers are not as magnificent and clean and transparent as people think, and some even melt large areas of ice and snow, which looks shocking and invisibly conveys the sound of protecting the environment.
On December 6, 2019, Wang Xiangjun was invited to Madrid, Spain, to participate in the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference as a civilian environmental observer, where he spoke and shared his images of glaciers. Stepping from a grassroots youth in the countryside to such a grand international stage is a milestone in wang xiangjun's growth. It is also an affirmation of his efforts over the years.
Subsequently, in 2020, Wang Xiangjun was interviewed by CCTV. It tells the story of the large-scale melting of glaciers brought about by global warming.
In the video, Wang Xiangjun stands next to the crystal clear glacier, enthusiastically sharing his knowledge of the glacier. That warmth and sincerity, in contrast to his eclectic appearance, are impressive.
Of course, Wang Xiangjun's shots are also full of adrenaline-pumping thrilling adventure scenes. Sometimes it really makes people sweat for him.
Wang Xiangjun once said that I love nature and am willing to go deep into it, but I only feel its beauty and energy, take pictures and record, and do not destroy. When I leave, nothing stays there. Wang Xiangjun, who has always followed this guideline, reneged on his promise during the expedition on December 20, 2020. He left himself there forever.
● Glacier distress
On December 17, 2020, Wang Xiangjun and a companion named Xiao Zuo set off from Lhasa with the dog "Potato" he had picked up during the expedition, planning to revisit the Yiga Glacier Waterfall in Jiali County, Tibet, which was scheduled to last 10 days. In 2017, Wang Xiangjun once visited the Iga Glacier Waterfall, so he was confident about this expedition.
Speaking of Wang Xiangjun's first meeting with Xiao Zuo, the atmosphere was still a little funny. On November 17, 2020, Wang Xiangjun encountered a rock falling from the top of the mountain during his expedition, and in an emergency, found an ice cave to take refuge and spent the night there. But the next morning I woke up and saw an uninvited guest.
In this way, in a cheerful atmosphere, Wang Xiangjun and Xiao Zuo met. Some people also said that the performance in the video was too pompous and that it was pre-arranged to be seen. I also found some gossip on the Internet that Xiao Zuo was actually an assistant hired by Wang Xiangjun to shoot and drive, and Wang Xiangjun would pay Xiao Zuo 8,000 yuan every month. However, the authenticity of this message cannot be verified.
In short, on December 19, 2020, Wang Xiangjun, Xiao Zuo, and the dog Potato arrived in a village in Zhongyu Township, Jiali County, in the evening. They slept in the car for one night and drove two hours to the Iga Glacier early the next morning.
Before filming, the two planned to focus on the pothole next to the waterfall, then sweep across the glacier with the pace of Wang Xiangjun's running, and finally stop at the rock covered with ice. After the first shooting was completed, Wang Xiangjun was not very satisfied with the effect, saying that there was no sense of substitution. Want to remake. This time Wang Xiangjun wanted to photograph the glacier upstream of the waterfall. In the second shooting, Wang Xiangjun fell into the water and fell into the glacier. I found the only video material left by Wang Xiangjun when he fell into the water.
Afterwards, Xiao Zuo recalled that after Wang Xiangjun fell into the water, he immediately carried out rescue. At first, I tried to use the camera's tripod to save it, but it turned out that the tripod was not long enough. Immediately, Xiao Zuo quickly ran back to the car and retrieved a sealed bucket and rope. He tied the rope to the bucket and threw the bucket to Wang Xiangjun. Xiao Zuo tried to pull him up with a rope, but still did not succeed. Because the down jacket worn by Wang Xiangjun quickly absorbed water, it became particularly heavy. Next to it was all ice, and there was not a single point of focus. There is no way to rescue them. Wang Xiangjun said to Xiao Zuo helplessly, you go to the rescue. At that time, there was a road construction team not far down the mountain. Xiao Zuo went to the construction team and shouted 5 people, and a group of people drove a pickup truck and soon came to the ice river. But at this time, Wang Xiangjun and the barrel were gone.
There was no mobile phone signal near the glacier, and Xiaozuo found the signal at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon and called the police. The local public security bureau and the fire brigade quickly arrived at the scene, but searched with XiaoZuo for more than an hour and found nothing. Seeing that it was dark, the group first returned to the police station, and later the police learned about the specific situation before and after the incident.
On December 22, Wang Xiangjun's younger brother Wang Long heard the news and rushed to the scene of the crime. The "Adventure China" expedition team, the "Pinglan Public Welfare", the Blue Sky Rescue Team and other teams also participated in the search and rescue. However, due to the harsh environment, the ice layer is too thick, the machine is not easy to drain, etc., the rescue operation has not yielded any results. On December 24, Wang Long returned to his hometown in Sichuan to inform his parents of his brother's loss of footing and falling into the water. On December 26, Wang Long used the account of his brother "Tibetan Adventure King" to post his death on Kuaishou. On December 30, Wang Long uploaded a video on Douyin and said, My brother, your old king, will always stay in his favorite waterfall.
Subsequently, Wang Long and his father Wang Dong returned to Lhasa to participate in the search and rescue on the spot again, until January 6, when the search and rescue work was interrupted due to weather and environmental reasons, and rescuers were evacuated.
As soon as the news of Wang Xiangjun's distress was announced, netizens could say that they had exploded the pot, and they said that a person they had been paying attention to suddenly disappeared, and really could not accept this reality.
A glacier explorer who sleeps in a glacier he loves. It sounds sad, but there is also a hint of sadness. However, things did not end in this heroic epic state. Xiao Zuo, who was traveling with Wang Xiangjun, suddenly became the target of everyone.
● Confusing
Xiao Zuo once said that he also unfortunately fell into the water when he rescued Wang Xiangjun. At that time, Wang Xiangjun said, "It's over, we're all going to die here." Xiao Zuo also said that he would not. In the falling water, Wang Xiangjun had a sealed empty bucket to support, but Xiao Zuo could only touch the rock wall with his bare hands. As a result, he was lucky enough to find a crack in the rock wall. Xiao Zuo stuck his hand in the crack and tried to climb up little by little. Xiao Zuo said that Wang Xiangjun also cheered him up at that time. When Xiao Zuo climbed up, he thought that as long as he took the handle, Wang Xiangjun could also come up. But the rock wall was too slippery, and with a little force, Xiao Zuo felt that he was going to fall again. There is really no way, Wang Xiangjun said, you go to the rescue.
For this description of Xiao Zuo's aftermath, many fans of Wang Xiangjun said that they would not buy it. Everyone said that Wang Xiangjun had seven or eight years of experience in glacier exploration, and Xiao Zuo could get stuck in the cracks in the rock wall, why couldn't Wang Xiangjun do it? And Xiao Zuo said that he threw the empty barrel tied to the rope to Wang Xiangjun. After a long search, Wang Xiangjun did not find it, but there was no reason why the empty barrel could not be found. Supposedly, the bucket should float on the surface of the river all the time and be easy to spot.
But none of this is the most important, and the biggest controversy on the Internet was a video uploaded by Wang Xiangjun on December 19, the day before the accident. Legend has it that this video has a spooky sound after the noise reduction processing. Let me show you the original video.
Because there is too much mixed information on the Internet, I personally downloaded a piece of mobile phone editing software that is now very popular, and carried out a noise reduction process. As for which software it is, I will not say, I believe many people can guess. One of the things that struck me as incredible was that after the noise reduction, I could clearly hear a person in the video saying, "It's so heavy, this guy, he's still bleeding." Then he said, "Take my hammer."
After the video was published online, it suddenly exploded again. Fans have said that this video does not look like the style of Glacier Brother at all. All of Brother Glacier's previous videos either have his own commentary or background music, and in most cases I will go abroad. But watching this ice cave video, there is no face, no explanation, and no background music, and many people suspect that the video is not shot by Brother Glacier. It was taken by his killer, in other words, Xiao Zuo. Wang Xiangjun was killed as early as December 20, and after the incident, Xiao Zuo deliberately used Wang Xiangjun's account to upload the video and falsify the time of death. Many people even made up for Xiao Zuo's motives. I think that the same adventure enthusiast, Glacier Brother has millions of fans, but Xiaozuo has only tens of thousands of fans. Everything could be out of jealousy.
Xiao Zuo himself said that when the video was filmed, he was indeed with the glacier brother Wang Xiangjun, but it was Wang Xiangjun who went into the cave alone to shoot. The shooting time was also ten days ago, but Wang Xiangjun uploaded it late, and it was uploaded on December 19. Later, Wang Xiangjun's family also posted a screenshot of the video taken in Wang Xiangjun's mobile phone, which showed that it was december 10.
However, even so, the majority of Sherlock Holmes netizens still firmly believe that Xiaozuo and Wang Xiangjun's death are inseparable. Xiao Zuo then received thousands of private messages insulting him almost every day, saying that he was a suspect in killing his companions. Xiao Zuo said that he once thought that "Internet violence" was just a word, and he never dreamed that this would happen to him. The wanton insults of netizens made Xiaozuo's mental state abnormal for a time, and even hearing the mobile phone ringing would be nervous to no, the heart rate accelerated during the day, the night could not fall asleep, and he was thinking about it repeatedly every day.
However, just a few days ago, the police released the final results of the investigation, Wang Xiangjun fell into the water is indeed an accident, and there is no suspicion of murder.
Then many people will definitely wonder, what is the strange sound that appears in the noise reduction video? The police also investigated the noise-cancelling blue-hole video that went viral on the Internet. They sent the video to a professional appraisal agency, not a professional appraisal agency, not an editing software that was casually downloaded from the Internet. After investigation, only the sound of water, footsteps, clothes rubbing, breathing, etc. in the video, and no effective voice was detected.
In fact, many videos can be heard similar to people's voices after the noise reduction processing of mobile phone editing software. Let me give you another example.
Maybe it's just the blue hole video, after the noise reduction, the voice just happens to be exceptionally clear. I don't know if this is a bug in this software. Maybe even if the police released the results of the investigation, even if there is a film of Wang Xiangjun falling into the water, there are still many people who think that this matter is not so simple. Some even said that maybe two people fell into the water at the same time, and one person stepped on the other and climbed up, and did not go to the rescue in time. But in any case, the body is not found for a day, and we can only raise reasonable doubts, and when the suspicion cannot be confirmed, we have no right to say who is the murderer, which is tantamount to creating another tragedy with one tragedy and contrary to the truth we are trying to seek.
Glacier expeditions are inherently fraught with danger, and without the assistance of professional equipment and professional teams, every time you set foot on a glacier, you will die nine times. When Lao Wang was in distress, neither he nor his companion Xiao Zuo took the rescue rope on his body, nor even wore professional skates or ice knives. Know that the ultimate love should be supported by the ultimate professionalism. The spirit of adventure is precious, but professional adventure knowledge and protective measures are the strength of long-term glacier racing. May our King of Glaciers rest in peace in the glaciers forever.