sinovels Chapter 18 Chapter 18
Chapter 18 Chapter 18
At noon, Island Peak Base Camp.
The local porters had already transported the life detectors and generators to the base camp, and they also thought about the mountain god's blessing for the mountaineering team members who encountered an avalanche.
The high-altitude area is extremely cold, and the battery of the life detector cannot last for a long time, so they prepared a diesel generator in advance that can supply the energy needed by everyone for three days and three nights.
If no one can be found within three days, no matter whether it is the American Aid Association or volunteers, they must withdraw the supplies from the mountain.
"I emphasize again that our rescue must put your safety as the first priority. I don't want to see any of you get hurt."
Dr. Pete said, his blue eyes behind the glasses showed a rare seriousness, "You have all received professional wilderness first aid training, and some of you were trained by me personally. Extreme weather often occurs on the mountain, I just hope you remember , no matter what the situation is, save the wounded who can be saved first. Regardless of gender, age, or nationality, first save the wounded who are most likely to be saved according to your judgment on the spot. I don’t need to convince you anymore: everyone’s life is the same valuable."
After Dr. Pete finished speaking, everyone dispersed according to their assigned tasks.
Dr. Pete, Chen Yan, Ji Yuanyuan and Lin Mu led their respective local guides and headed in four directions.Since they were not sure whether the mountaineering team was heading for the summit or descending, they had to scan the positions near the base camp in order.
Because Jimmy received the least and latest field first aid training, he was assigned to the left-behind base camp and was responsible for logistics support.
He was already familiar with the situation of diesel generators, counted the rescuers and supplies again, and wandered around in the tent with nothing to do.
After a while, he heard Ji Yuanyuan calling on the intercom: "Report to the base camp, and found the climbing tents of the mountaineering team. There are two...three tents in total."
"Can you see people?" Jimmy hurriedly asked, and at the same time started to activate the satellite phone.Once the survivors are found, they will be sent to the international hospital run by America Aid in the capital immediately.
"I can't see clearly. Wait, let me get closer," Ji Yuanyuan walked steadily at an altitude of nearly 5000 meters, "I saw it! Someone!"
A sudden gust of wind blew up in the Golan Valley, and Ji Yuanyuan's voice was blown like a kite with a broken string, making her inaudible.
"Jimmy... someone..."
"How many people are there? I'll contact the helicopter to pick them up immediately."
"Wait...it seems..."
"What's the matter? Hey! Deputy Captain Ji? Can you hear me? Ji Yuanyuan? Please confirm if you hear me, Deputy Captain Ji!"
The call on the walkie-talkie was suddenly cut off. Jimmy immediately called guide Ji Yuanyuan's intercom, the voice was connected for a short while, and then fell silent.
Jimmy started the response methodically and according to the plan. The hospital of the American Aid Association in the capital of country K was notified, and at the same time, the airport was preparing to arrange for a helicopter to fly over in the next suitable weather window.
Then he called Chen Yan, Lin Mu, and Dr. Pete, and the latter decided that he and the three guides would continue to search the relevant area to find other survivors, while Chen Yan and Lin Mu temporarily separated from the guide to meet up in the dome tent discovered by Ji Yuanyuan climbers.
While waiting, Jimmy and Yu Yun boiled water and made a pot of masala milk tea, which was ready to drink when everyone came back.
After a while, Jimmy's walkie-talkie rang a murmur.
"Hello? Hi Linshu? How's it going?"
It was Ji Yuanyuan who took the call: "Hey, Jimmy is me. The walkie-talkie between me and my guide was so cold that it ran out of power and turned off."
Jimmy asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
Ji Yuanyuan replied: "There are three survivors. The rest have not been found yet. I will take them back to the base camp first, and you prepare."
When Ji Yuanyuan brought the three mountaineering team back, Jimmy found that they were in pretty good condition.
When the avalanche occurred, the three of them were all on the far side of the mountain, and they were not directly buried in the snow. They also carried tents, down jackets and other equipment with them, so their lives were not in danger.It's just that I haven't eaten anything for more than 48 hours and only drank snow water, and my body looks very weak.
Ji Yuanyuan stuck her waist beside her, out of breath from exhaustion: "They are still looking for the rest. There are five people left."
Lin Mu and Chen Yan are searching for them in the direction pointed out by the survivors.The remaining five people are all from country Z, and they don't belong to the same mountaineering team as the three survivors.
Due to the changeable weather on the island peak, the window for climbing to the summit is extremely narrow, usually only two to three hours. In order to compete for a camp closer to the mountain, two groups of climbing teams had a quarrel the night before departure.
Later, the people of country Z won the quarrel by relying on the large number of people, and put up the tent on the ice surface nearly 10 minutes away from the summit line. Unexpectedly, the sky was cloudless that day, and the sun shone very brightly, which melted the snow on the ridge. triggered an avalanche.They were all buried in it.
As a result, the three surviving nationals from country Y lost their lives.
"Chen, Lin, your return closing time is 11:30." Dr. Pete ordered again through the intercom, which was confirmed by Chen Yan and Lin Mu.
Ji Yuanyuan put down the hot tea in her hand, and decided to go out and search around before closing time.
"receive."
"Got it, doctor."
The closer to noon, the wetter and loose the snow on the mountain, and even a careless person may cause an avalanche.
Jimmy suddenly felt a little nervous for no apparent reason.
Captain... Will he get lost?His guide was not with him.Captain...do you feel cold?
It's meal time now, should he be hungry?Back in the tent, there will be hot milk tea and limited supply of marinated eggs.
Jimmy hadn't had time to call Jeremy to ask him to use the satellite of the Swiss weather forecasting company to check the conditions of the clouds near the island peak when he heard a rumbling sound in his ear.
At first it sounded like the sound of a car engine starting, then it sounded like a motorcycle roaring by on the highway, and finally it was the roar of a summer rainstorm.
"Avalanche!"
"The mountain god is angry!"
"Run!"
When running out of the tent, Jimmy still remembered to remind everyone to open the protective airbag on his down jacket.That would provide an extra four to 10 minutes of survival oxygen for those unfortunate enough to be buried in the snow.
"Everyone, open the airbags!"
Jimmy ran out of the tent and saw that the opposite snow mountain had turned into a misty white hell.
The spire of the snow mountain was no longer visible, only snowballs and ice slags were left, as if to swallow people alive.That's where the rescue team was headed.
In the white that covered the sky and the sun, no one could be seen.
"forest--"
Jimmy didn't deploy his airbags, he just wanted to run to the captain and make sure he was all right.
The avalanche lasted for a full 3 minutes before it stopped.
During those 3 minutes, Jimmy kept breaking away from the survivors holding his hand, and he had no power to resist when they yelled at him in a foreign language they didn't understand.
Then Dr. Pete also arrived, and he immediately turned on the satellite phone to contact the outside rescue team.
"We're going to rescue them!"
"It's too dangerous! Jimmy, do you remember the first step in field rescue? It's to assess the environment and stay away from danger! You can't risk your life!"
Jimmy wanted to yell at him "something is more important than my life", but he knew Dr. Pete wouldn't understand.He picked up the life detector, and rushed into the snow and rain as soon as the avalanche stopped and the dust was still there.
Jimmy waved away the snow fog that filled his eyes, and saw the back of a dark green down jacket under a tree not far away.The tree, broken in half by the crushed snow, was dangerously crumbling.
"Ling Mu, don't move!" He rushed away, and the dark green down jacket trembled when he heard the sound - but it turned out to be Ji Yuanyuan.
"Captain Lin is behind that stone that looks like a marinated egg! I saw him just now! I'm following you!"
Jimmy left her and rushed towards the rock, Ji Yuanyuan adjusted for a long time to shake herself off from the snow, and then chased after her.
When she ran behind the stone, she saw that Jimmy had already pressed the tree on the ground, his chest was heaving violently, and Captain Lin still had blood on his forehead——
She was in a bad mood, sure enough, Captain Lin was too blunt, which pissed off a smiling kid like Jimmy.She rushed up to pull the two of them apart: "Don't, don't fight! If you have something to say, talk it out! Where's Chen Yan? Did any of you see Chen Yan?"
Jimmy jumped up: "I only saw you two when I came here! Where was the last time you saw Chen Yan?"
Ji Yuanyuan's heart skipped a beat: "That's... the direction you came from..."
Chen Yan was buried under the snow!
His life has entered a countdown of 10 minutes, if he cannot be found immediately...
Lin Mu didn't have time to explain why Ji Yuanyuan was wearing his down jacket, and Jimmy didn't have time to pursue it, so the three of them headed towards the base camp to search separately.
"Look out for the orange!" Jimmy reminded them.If Chen Yan thinks of opening his airbag during an avalanche, the orange shell of the airbag will stick out of the snow.
On the way, Lin Mu found a person, but that person was not Chen Yan, but a survivor.
He was unfortunately hit by the second avalanche after evading the first avalanche.Dr. Pete rushed over to rescue him immediately.
10 minute has passed...
The mist left by the avalanche has all cleared away.Near the Daofeng base camp, a crystal snowy fairyland has been restored again.
But where is Chen Yan... Jimmy looked at the whiteness in front of him, his eyes hurt from the sunlight reflected by the snow surface because he took off the snow goggles, and tears flowed down his eyes involuntarily.
Chen Yan didn't have to be like this.
When he met Chen Yan in his senior year, he was a romantic figure in the school without knowing it, and he felt very simple when he drove a Maserati SUV. Food carts waste gasoline and pollute the environment, which is why they are combined into one.
So he quickly gained the reputation of a hypocritical rich second generation, and was happily included in the circle by other rich second generations.
When Jimmy got to know him, he wondered, how could this guy be so out of tune with everyone else around him?
After he sang every song on KTV, he applauded earnestly. When he drank too much wine, he spoke in pinyin. At that time, he didn't like shopping but loved mountains and fields. Run in the mountains.
On the day of the terrorist attack in London, Chen Yan was copying homework with his girlfriend in the library. When he went out, he found that the Maserati had already been burnt to an empty shell.And he was lucky enough to escape because of his true love for the final assignment.
Later, Chen Yan changed his car, dropped a few water courses, and went to the United Nations for an internship as soon as he was on vacation, and went to Africa to aid construction.
After graduation, he could not understand the perfunctory and bureaucratic nature of the United Nations, so he joined USAA and was assigned to Thar.
His girlfriend was gone, and his family basically gave up their plan to let him take over the company. They introduced him to several psychological counselors, but nothing happened.
When Tal reunited, Jimmy felt that something had completely changed in Chen Yan.
He became... more at ease.
He is no longer wearing a trendy card but humbly bowing his head and smiling.He taunted the United Nations loudly, and blatantly scolded the local driver who killed him for a few dollars.
He finally felt worthy of his hard-earned corner of peace at the end of the world.
At last, before it was too late, he was convinced that his own life, at least for some seriously ill Thar people, was absolutely indispensable, a light in life.
He told Jimmy himself that there was nothing more he wanted.
Jimmy couldn't remember how he dug Chen Yan out of the snow.
Chen Yan fell to the ground, unconscious.His airbags took most of the falling snow for him and kept his life-saving oxygen.
Lin Mu who caught up immediately started first aid, but Chen Yan had no response to sound or pain.
It stands to reason that the next step at this time is to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.The body of an avalanche patient who can be covered by snow for more than 10 minutes may have reached a critical value. If cardiopulmonary resuscitation is suddenly applied, sudden death may occur.
Lin Mu looked at Jimmy in embarrassment, he was the closest relative to Chen Yan at this moment.
Jimmy turned around and left, begging Dr. Pete not far away to put down the survivors in his hands.
"Please save Chen Yan! He is your colleague! Your student! He has no pain response—"
Dr. Pete didn't seem to hear, and continued to rescue the survivors on his hands.What he said, and the textbook that they all passed the exam also said, when there are many people in need of rescue, first rescue the one that seems the most likely to be saved...
And Chen Yan has no pain response, it is very likely...
"Go save Chen Yan."
Jimmy put the gun coldly against the back of Dr. Pete's neck and clicked the gun into the chamber.
Nobody expected Jimmy to carry a gun with him.No one expected that he would threaten a doctor with a gun and put down the patient in his hand...
Dr. Pete gave Jimmy a cold look, and obediently obeyed.He knelt beside Chen Yan and decided to perform CPR after a quick check.
After 5 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, they finally heard Chen Yan's long breath.
"Senior! Hey! Hey! Can you hear me, senior?" Jimmy put away his gun and called his own helicopter to come immediately for support.
On the other end of the line, the secretary on the line stubbornly retorted: "The weather is getting worse now! Even if the helicopter flies over, it may not be able to fly out! The window is only 10 minutes, you can't risk the life of the pilot!"
"Fly here first! I'll figure out how to fly out!" Jimmy skillfully used money to solve the problem, "Give the pilot $[-] in cash and tell Jeremy that I authorized it."
There was silence all around.Everyone has not been relieved from Jimmy's violent threats, and now hearing that he paid $[-] to buy a helicopter pilot to risk his life is even more mixed.
"Helicopter is here, I'll fly out." Ji Yuanyuan said casually, "Captain Lin has a head injury, so he is forbidden to fly."
She held down Lin Shu who wanted to refute, took off the down jacket and returned it to him, raising her eyebrows: "Besides, when it comes to flying a helicopter, I have more than five hundred hours more flying time than you, right? I am three years earlier than you and left the country."
Less than 10 minutes later, they heard the helicopter take off from the entrance of the Golan Valley, seize the brief weather window, and slowly land on the ice near base camp.
At that time, the dark clouds had begun to accumulate again. The local pilot was a middle-aged man with a little gray hair.
Jimmy thought, if Edison Chan was still alive, he would be his age.
The rescue helicopter was so small that it looked like a toy to Jimmy and Lin Mu who were used to seeing large machines, like a red dragonfly.
But the smaller it is, the more difficult it is to control on the ice and the windy plateau, and often a mistake in operation will cause irreparable and serious consequences.
I saw that Ji Yuanyuan had put on the pilot's sunglasses and windproof cap at some point, and strode confidently into the driver's seat.
This small helicopter only has two rows of seats, except for her, there can only be one Chen Yan lying down in the back row. Jimmy stuffed Chen Yan, who was still unconscious, into the sleeping bag, then carried the sleeping bag onto the helicopter, and fastened the seat belt.
"I'll leave it to you..." Jimmy rummaged through his mind trying to come up with a nickname to express intimacy and trust, "Yuanyuan."
A dissatisfied expression appeared on Ji Yuanyuan's face, she curled her lips, but in the end she didn't directly embarrass him: "Call me Miss Ji from now on."
She pointed to the trees with her chin, and said to Jimmy, "I leave it to you."
That night, Saltwater City Airport, the capital of Country K.
It only took half an hour for the plane driven by Ji Yuanyuan to safely transport Chen Yan to the apron on the top floor of the American Aid International Hospital.Well-trained doctors immediately rushed up with a stretcher and sent him to the emergency room.
First aid was very successful.Although Chen Yan experienced cardiac arrest caused by severe hypoxia and cold, the trauma was actually relatively minor. After being bandaged, he was sent to the intensive care unit, and he could be discharged after a few days of observation.
Jimmy, Lin Mu, Dr. Pete and several other American Aid rescuers took another helicopter to bring out the three survivors in good condition.
The local porters dug up the remains of the seven victims at the location pointed out by the survivors. On behalf of the government of country K, the American Aid Association notified the government of country Z and their families.
The plane landed at the capital airport of country K, and the propellers gradually stopped turning.
Jimmy and Lin Shu got off the plane side by side and walked across the long runway, while the warm yellow light of the coffee stand was shining tenderly in the terminal building.
Jimmy stopped suddenly: "Wait, you haven't explained to me why Ji Yuanyuan is wearing your down jacket?"
Lin Mu looked innocent: "When she came out, she was wearing a ragged down jacket from the country Y mountaineering team. I thought she was too cold, so I changed it with her, and my down jacket has airbags—"
Jimmy asked, "What about an avalanche? What do you do if she has an airbag? If something happens to you—"
Lin Mu was unexpectedly serious: "You have to forget about me and go your own way."
Jimmy snorted coldly, still unhappy that he sacrificed himself for others at every turn.Lin Mu was two steps behind him, and suddenly heard the sound of arguing behind him.
"Mr. Pete, what do you think of the USAA scandal?"
A white reporter held up a microphone and questioned Dr. Pete, who had just gotten off the plane and was very tired.It was the reporter who had been on the international news and interviewed Jimmy.
Lin Mu remembered seeing him on TV in the waiting lounge when he was watching the post-earthquake press conference in Tahr.
He is so pervasive that he can even know the news of Dr. Pete's return from the mountains in advance.
"As far as I know, America Aid has no so-called scandals that have been substantiated by evidence," Pete replied.
"Then how do you explain that the plane of the American Aid Association does not need to go through the security check at the airport of country K? I just saw with my own eyes that the goods on your plane were released directly without passing the security check."
The reporter was politely invited to the non-flying area by the security personnel, but he refused to go out.
"Is there any bribery involved in the U.S. aid organization's K country government? If it is a bribe, is the money embezzled by you?"
Dr. Pete replied politely as he walked: "America's shipments are special, and they are medicines that need to be stored at low temperature. This is why the government of country K deliberately exempted the security inspection procedures for American Aid's medicines."
"Then did you lobby the government to pass this waiver law? Did you—"
The white reporter was finally pulled away by impatient airport security.
Lin Mu signaled goodbye to Dr. Pete with his eyes, and took Jimmy out of the airport.