In recent years, many people have been challenging themselves to travel to Sichuan and Tibet by self driving. The road Xiao Bian is going to talk about today is the hardest road in the world - Xinzang line. Many of the roads are rather dangerous, and they are the most dangerous of several routes to Tibet, especially the 5300 meter Jieshan Daban and the famous dead man's ditch.
The whole line is mostly endless Gobi desert and perennial snow covered mountains, and most of the sections passing through are no man's land. The climate is changeable, the condition is very bad and the danger is very big.
Originally, the oxygen content here is only 45% - 60% of the sea level. The basin and valley landform surrounded by high mountains form a "barrel effect", which makes the air in the ditch difficult to circulate and easy to accumulate carbon dioxide.
The dead man's ditch can't be found on the map. It's called Quanshuigou or tielongtan on the map.
It is said that the origin of the name of the dead man's ditch is as follows: the first group of people from a company of the people's Liberation Army who entered Ali camped here for one night, but none of them woke up the next day and all died of lack of oxygen! At that time, people didn't know much about the mountain reaction. They thought the place was mysterious and terrifying, and it took people's lives. So they called it such a creepy name.
It is said that there are countless white bones left by the people who died of freezing, death and car overturning over the years. If it is said that these 'reports' are fictitious and exaggerated, but the' field reports' of the armed police forces on the Xinjiang Tibet Railway in rescuing more than 3200 tourists in distress in the past eight years are enough to make you shudder and shiver.
Looking at the terrain, the dead man's gully is a gully tens of kilometers long, with steep mountains on both sides. The climate here is changeable, the conditions are extremely bad, and the danger is very great. When the car passed, the shrill wind was like crying and howling; After nightfall, scattered phosphorous fire on both sides of the ditch spread on both sides of the road & hellip& hellip;
In addition to the precipitous, the dead man's ditch has other beauty!
Antelopes and donkeys run far away, while rabbits and marmots stand on the side of the road and look around curiously.
Traffic in the 'eye-catching ceremony' driving up the ridge, turned over is an open basin. Most of the basin is occupied by a lake. The lake is calm and without waves. It is quiet under the rising sun.
On the other side of the lake is the snow mountain. It looks chilly, as if the ice and cold between heaven and earth are all caused by it.
Do you dare to go to such a precipitous and beautiful ditch for the dead?