Meili Snow Mountain: Looking for Seventeen Friends
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In January 1991, a mountaineering accident shocked the world in the Meili Snow Mountain in Yunnan. Seventeen members of the China-Japan Friendship Joint Mountaineering Team were hit by an avalanche and all died. This is the second largest mountain disaster in the history of human mountaineering. In the history of modern mountaineering for more than a hundred years, Meili Snow Mountain has also become a mountain that humans cannot climb. After the accident, China and Japan conducted multiple searches. One of the search team members, a Japanese mountaineer named Kobayashi Shorei, has repeatedly searched deep into the Meili Snow Mountain in order to bring the souls of his teammates who died in the mountain disaster back to their loved ones over the next twenty years, and has successfully found sixteen bodies. "Meili Snow Mountain: Searching for Seventeen Friends" is a record of Xiao Lin Shangli's many years of arduous search. With plain and delicate documentary-style text and sublime and gentle images, this book records the heartbreaking horror of the mountain disaster, the arduous search, the mysterious features of Meili Snow Mountain, the simple life of the people at the foot of the mountain, three trips to the mountain and the changes in local life. In a search that spanned many years, he gradually transformed from an arrogant outsider climber to a guardian of the sacred mountain, a photographer and writer of natural themes. The cruelty and sacredness of the snow-capped mountains naturally cleanses their souls and lives, and also cleanses every soul who loves the snow-capped mountains.
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