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D1 : Took a train to Lo Wu in the morning. Air shuttle bus could be easily found in Shen Zhen costing $20 and it took 45min to the airport. There was free internet after security check in the airport. The plane was going to 西宁 via Xian and arrived at about 7:00 p.m. Public bus was $21 to down town and it took about 30 min. Took a taxi ($6) to a ** hotel and $120 for a double room.
D2 : To buy ticket to 格尔木($131) of a lower berth. City walk in the afternoon and enjoyed local food. To make a call to other members who stayed in YHA.
D3 : They picked me up at 8:30a.m. and went to train station to buy ticket. The jeep would go to玛多. We took a lot of photo en route especially in 油菜花 及 日月亭 which I had been in the past. We arrived at about 8:00 p.m. and rent a local 4-wheel drive car at $900. However, I had serious mountain sickness in the night and had not taken a sleep at night.
D4 : It was raining at night and could not go today. I took a good sleep in the morning and walked to a small hill with thousands of 經梵。It was windy and cold. I was totally recovered after the short walk.
D5 : We went to 牛头碑(4 610m)、扎陵湖、鄂陵湖 today. The weather was fine and the road condition was very rough. 扎陵湖、鄂陵湖 were two great lake in 黄河源头.
D6 : It was a long driving day (10 hr) from 玛多 to西宁. There was nothing but sunshine. We arrived in YHA as about 4:30p.m. and took a shower there. I took a night train from西宁 to 格尔木. Mr.吉 from Nang Jing who was also a participant sleep opposite to me.
D7 : 8:30 a.m. arrived at格尔木. It was easy to find the gathering hotel and it was only 3 min. from train station. Mr.馬 was already there. I stayed at a room $120 and it was very clean with hot shower. City walk was done in the afternoon. The down town was small and nothing special to be seen there.
D8 : 8:30 a.m. welcome other participants from Hong Kong. We rent two taxi ($180 @) to 察汗爾鹽湖 及 萬丈鹽橋 in the afternoon. The trip took about 4 hours and the traveling distance was about 200km. Each cost was only $60 and it was very cheap!!
D9 : There were 11 participants and took two cars to 西大灘( 4100). We arrived at about 11:30 a.m. I had been there 7 years ago when I joint a tour to Tibet. I remembered that I had serious mountain sickness at that time. I had not any such symptoms. I walked to a small knoll before lunch and went to the glacier in the afternoon. The glacier seemed to be closed. However, we still could not reach there after 2-hrs walk. We needed to cross some rivers and passed through 青藏鐵路. We also walked along debris and terminal moraine. We returned when it started raining.
D10 : We drive into玉珠峰BC ( 5100m). The base camp was situated near to a river bank and it consisted of several large local tents with some smaller tents. One was kitchen and one was for eating. I slept with two others in a large tent while other 10 pp slept in the other. The lunch was a simple noodle only. We got our rented maintaining equipment and simple practice in using them. They were heavy and bulky. We went to snow line in the late afternoon. It took 50 min. up and 30min. down. It was quite a good for 高度適應. It was heavy downpour during night and the tent was leaking.
D11 : The weather was bad and could not go to C1. We went to glacier in the afternoon. 1.5-hr up and 1hr down. It was nothing special for me and it was just a walk. It was heavy rain when I was returning. There was a hailstorm in the late afternoon and was freezing cool.
D12 : It was raining in the morning and turned fine in the afternoon. We had a very short notice to start in 2 o'clock. My backpack was very heavy (16kg) with all climbing equipment. It was the first time for me to carry such a heavy load for climbing. It was demanding even in Hong Kong. We were blocked in a river bank. The river was too wide for us to jump over it and the velocity of river flowing was too fast for us to cross using bare foot. We were very disappointed to return because of the river while the weather was fine!!!
D13 : We started at 9:00a.m. As the water level was still high, we were picked up by 4-wheel drive car to cross the river. My backpack was much heavier (18kg). One local guide instructed me to walk faster, otherwise I had to back. I said that I had my own pace. Slowly! Slowly! Slowly! I could manage. We took some rest en route and reached a knoll which was 150m higher than BC. Local guide said that we could not go as foggy. I was surprised that cloudy could not go!?! The path was just along the ridge and they should know the path. After waiting for an hour, we went 100m higher and stopped again. They said that it was windy that we could not go!?! Crazy!!!
It was so common that weather was erratic in this altitude. We were prepared physically and psychological. I was surprised to hear from the local guides!!!
We waited for another hour till raining and the temperature was dropped from 10C to 2C. They told us that it was raining and was difficult to set up camp in C1. However, it seemed that we had no choice to split the team. Only I and Monica had considered to go to C1. They had said many reasons for retreating without mention any positive way to go. We had no choice and had to retreat back. The weather turned fine when we always went to BC. The failure of achieving the summit was 100% responsibility of the local guide. We were prepared to go to summit while local guides prepared to turn back only. We took a car( 3 hr) to 格尔木 same night and had a good hot shower.
D14 : To buy 冬蟲夏草($380) as a gift and got a ticket to 廣州. It was a soft sleeping berth($1114). I took the train at 23:51 and would arrive廣州 at 18:10(day3). The train was special for青藏鐵路. The facility included:
1. The bed was 2 feet wide and was divided into upper and lower.
2. Head lamp and a oxygen outlet in each bed.
3. Spacious storage room.
4. Room for 4 pp and could be locked inside.
5. There were only 2 soft-sleeping cars and each had only 32pp.
6. 3-washing basins and two toilets which were cleaned every 2-hour.
7. Un-limited supply of hot water.
8. LCD monitor for displaying information.
9. Set lunch/dinner ($15/$20).
10. Schedule as follows :
全程耗时：56:10 小时 全程距离：4980 公里
车站 到达时间 发车时间 走行时间（小时） 里程
1 拉萨 10:00 10:00 00:00 0
2 那曲 13:57 14:03 03:57 322
3 格尔木 23:31 23:51 13:31 1142
4 西宁 09:53 10:08 23:53 1972
5 兰州 13:00 13:15 27:00 2188
6 西安 20:49 21:02 34:49 2864
7 郑州 02:44 02:50 40:44 3375
8 武昌 07:38 07:53 45:38 3911
9 长沙 11:05 11:11 49:05 4273
10 广州 18:10 18:10 56:10 4980
Conclusion: 4 stupid reasons retreating!
Reasons Solution
1. Water level is high and cannot cross A simple 3m ladder is sufficient for crossing
2. Windy cannot go!
Cloudy cannot go! Stupid! High altitude should have wind and cloud.
3. Raining cannot go! Stupid! All equipment of participants are checked and are water proof. However, the equipment of guide is not water proof!
4. Raining cannot pitch the tent. If the guide cannot pitch the tent during raining, they should not be regarded as guide.
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