Top of the Mountain

Pinnacle Mountaineer decide to challenge the Guinness World Record for Mount Everest. Although they are not professional mountaineering teams, they are all people with rich survival and mountaineering experience. They get together just for the same goal: to get the fastest Guinness World Record on Climbing Mount Everest. After nearly a year of preparation and practice, they wait for the most suitable time to climb Everest. [[Next Page]]

The climbing team includes five members： [[Tom Hill]], [[Jeffrey Smith]], [[Ray Wilson]], [[Anna Scott]], and [[William Scott]].

Retired veterans with strong survivability [[Ready to go]]

Familiar with the route [[Ready to go->4]]

Adapt to long runaways [[Ready to go->3]]

Thin and not easily hungry [[Ready to go->2]]

Anna's husband Strong, ability to bear pain [[Ready to go->1]]

It's too late when you realize that waiting for rescue is a very stupid thing now. The snowstorm has started. You can't go anywhere except staying. Any wind will blow you without a trace. Rescue Team? Helicopters are afraid that they can't take off normally, how could they find someone then? [[Next Page->snow]]

It is so dark that you can not even distinguish where is covered by snow. You walk around, touch the wall and find the open side. You take the tools in your bag out and try to clean a way out. After a long time work, you did it, you see the light and realize that you are in the middle of the mountain. Now you have to decide whether you want to [[climb without any guildence]] or [[find a way back]].

God always cares for the brave. You climbed to the top of the mountain smoothly. Thank God for not letting you be hurt, not letting you lose the food and tools in your bag, and not letting you experience extreme weather again. In fact, everyone has made a promise. If someone has an accident in the middle of this climbing, other teammates must climb up with their faith. Each of them had a group photo of them five people and a small box in their bag. Everyone agreed that if anyone of them missed the summit this time, they would put this photo in a small box and bury it on the top of the mountain. Although you did not break the Guinness Book of Records this time, there are more chances. As long as you live, there is hope. As long as you have faith, you can do it.

You go down intuitively. You are not strang with this route, because you have gone through countless times when during this years preparation. You know the terrain here. Practice always deviates from theory. According to previous speculations, you should have arrived at the post at this time, but you did not, you did not even see the shadow of people. You proceeded cautiously, faintly hearing something in the distance. [[You don't have time to think and look for a cover in a hurry.]] [[You look back and want to figure out the situation.]]

You go on your jouney to find Anna. Your strong will and belief in finding Anna have made your leg injury less severe.After a long time searching, you find her. You are exhausted, but you find her alive. She is passing out with breath. You take the sos flag out and put it on snow wish that the rescue team could see you. You almost pass out, but you see a helicopter. They find you, but their capacity is three, which means they can only take one of you. They already called the rescue center and there will be another helicopter come soon. You choose to: [[Let Anna get on the helicopter.]] [[You get on the helicopter.]] [[Both of you waiting for the next helicopter.]]

After twenty days reseaching, the rescue team find Anna's body. You cry so hard, and heart broken. You become a grave keeper, and wish to stay with Anna forever.

Anna get good take care after she arrrive the hospital. You are resuced too. But because your legs are in a cold environment for too long, your legs have completely lost consciousness. You have to choose an amputation in order to live, so you have to spend your second half in a wheelchair. From then on, you will never be able to climb again.

You hilicopter meet an accident and none of you servive in this air crush.

The rescue team go find other servivors.The weather is so cold that your wife gradually stopped breathing in your arms. When the rescue team arrived, you hold your wife's cold body without saying a word.

You don't shout because you know it was useless. In such a place, even if you talk face to face, you have to use all your volume. Shouting is the most useless thing. Fortunately, you haven't suffered any injuries, and your energy retention is OK. The snow is thick and you move forward carefully. You don't know where you are going, or where you can go. You don't know where William is, you don't even know if he is alive. The more you think about it, the more you despair. The light in front of you is getting brighter and you fall unconsciously backwards. In the dream, you saw how you married William. You smiled. Smile so sweet.

You are not seriously injured, so you can walk around. It didn't take long for you to find your bag. Wait, this is not yours, it's Williams. William? Where is he? You shouted a few times, and there was no answer in the air. You dare not continue shouting, because there is not much food in the backpack and you have no energy to waste.He should be nearby, his bag is here. That is what you say to yourself. You believed that William was still alive, so you found him around. You go very carefully. Indeed, it's all snow here, and if you accidentally step into the abyss. You gradually felt colder and colder, as if you saw William's figure, and then you fainted.

You rush movement Caused an avalanche. You are buried under heavy snow.

Not an avalanche. You find an dying old gentleman. He looks terrible, and his tries so had to made a sound. He seems get bad injured, you try to help him but you can't help it. It suddenly get cold and you start to feel that the good weather is about to end soon. You realize that you need to make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise neither of you will be able to leave here alive. The old man points hard at his bag and give you a gesture. You understand what he means. He says that there are still some food in his bag.he can't do it anymore, and he tells you take useful things from his bag and leave. At this moment, you [[hold the old man's bag in tears and leave in a hurry]], or [[help the old man drink water and eat, and you want to take him away]].

You decide to wait another day. You believe that it will have no effect on this day. Your leg was injured, so you hope that the rescue team will rescue Anna. After a day of anxious waiting, you [[continue to wait->wait for one more day]], or [[no longer wait]].

You ask them to borrow some tools and take two people to look for Anna. Soon after going out, you saw Anna lying on the ground covered with snow. She was already cold when you touched her. You still reached under her nose to test her breath, even though you knew she was dead. You don't want to hear her death, and hate that you didn't come out to find her earlier. She was not far from you, and died there alone. There was a faint smile on her face, as if the smile on her face on their wedding day when he watched her walk towards him.

You hurriedly take out some food from the old gentleman's bag and left. You didn't have time to dig through carefully to find out what was inside, so you only took the biscuits outside. You stand in front of the old man, bow to the old man, and walked down the mountain. Because the weather is getting worse, you also start to get irritable, and you don't have patience to be so careful when walking. You fall into the abyss.

You find a flare gun in your bag. You use it, and you are resuced.

Everything looks so smooth. Starting from base camp with camp number three, the weather was the same as they measured. When everyone was about to take out their tents and have a rest for the next stop, they suddenly felt the land is skaking. As soon as he looked up, the snow fell down. It was an avalanche. You wake up, open your eye and see you friend is next to you. Two of you about to wake up around the same time. You look around, there is no bags around you. Tom is there. His presence gives you a hint of life. Although there is nothing around you, you still have the confidence to survive. Based on your years of research experience, you two should be between Camp 2 and Camp 1. In this state, it is unrealistic to reach the top. All you can do now is find your way. What about the rest? Are they near here? Should you go to the first camp or try to find other players first? It is well known that there is no fork in this road, and once you go wrong, it is an abyss. But is there any way, if no one notified the rescue team, no one could find you. So you [[propose to find teammates->save teammates]], or [[find a way down the mountain]].

Tom always thinks you are stingy. In fact, you have a bad relationship with him. In your eyes, he is nothing but a strong reckless man. No brainer, but just being a soldier for a few years. You tell him to watch the road carefully, but he just wants to show off his huge pension. You look at his face getting fascinated. You look a bit like him, and you're about the same age. Hair color, eyes, and hight are similar, but this muscle. . . well, it just take practice. You suddenly have an evil thought. You deliberately walked slowly, which caused Tom's dissatisfaction. He mumble at you like a woman, while walking straight forward. You stop because you didn't tell him that there is NO WAY AHEAD.

You don't know where to go. It's getting dark and you don't have food. You start to regret today's decision. So why not rush on during the day and find a way back? Later, the two of you found a cave and hid. It's not too bad to have windproof matches in your clothes pockets. At least a little warm at such a low temperature. But what can you do to relief hungry? The two of you look at each other and [[reach for the knife on the innermost side of the clothes. . .]]

You chose to go down the mountain, but Jeffrey chose to save people. This ridiculous fool, does he really feel that he can save others with a little knowledge of geography? You are a veteran, you are not afraid of death. But you understand the truth, some sacrifice is not worth it. Even imagine he can others, do two of them have enough energy to go down the mountain? It's stupid. You have strengthened your faith in going down the mountain, because as long as you are alive, you will have a [[large pension]] for you every month.

You recall that scene carefully, in an abandoned factory. A group of people surrounded you and threw you two guns. He asked you to choose either to hand over the information or kill the other guys who is stand oppoiste with you with a gun. Both of you are spies from the army. Unfortunately, the two of you were caught in the process of performing the task. They arrested you for interrogation. This is the way to ask. You know that even if you kill each other, they won't let you go. You are neither willing to die nor to hand over important information easily.But for you, alive is the most important thing, isn't it? [[Next Page->amry]]

For food, humans can really have no bottom line. Two of you aiming at each other.Your goals is to kill him. Only kill him can provide you food. Both of you target at each other. After a few round, The knif fall and both of you fall to the ground. When rescuers found you, you get a chance boarded in the newspaper. "Love is deep: the two mountaineers are in distress/suicide together/we are still good brothers." But in fact, is this really the case? [[Next Page->END]]

You are a veteran. Although you is getting older now, your hand is not as adept as before. However, your proficiency of the gun and the perception of others are still higher than the person in front of you. You hardly think that you might lose because you never lose. But just as you reach out the gun, familiar clips flash. [[View clips]] or [[shoot him]].

In your memory, you once pointed a gun at a person like this. You recall that scene carefully, in an abandoned factory. A group of people surrounded you and threw you two guns. He asked you to choose either to hand over the information or kill the other guys who is stand oppoiste with you with a gun. Both of you are spies from the army. Unfortunately, the two of you were caught in the process of performing the task. They arrested you for interrogation. This is the way to ask. You know that even if you kill each other, they won't let you go. You are neither willing to die nor to hand over important information easily.But for you, alive is the most important thing, isn't it? [[Next Page->now what]]

You didn't hesitate to shoot him.He died in front of you. You look at the snow and suddenly don't know what to do. Every previous climb was led by him. Sudden avalanches make everything confusing. You start to think about the picture in your mind just now. [[What is it?]]

You don't delve into it, because you just want to go out. You know you can't live long without food or drink. Rather than waiting to die, find a way to live seems to be a smarter idea. A way to live, all the way is cover by snow. You walk carefully downhill. Every step you take is very careful, because you are afraid to go wrong and fall into the abyss. You don't know how long you have been away. It's getting dark and you are a bit tired. After all, it's been a long time since I trained, and I don't eat or drink for a day, so you just want to find a place to sleep. You see a cave, and in the vague you see two figures. your choice: [[Walk into the cave]] [[That must be an illusion. You decided to wake up a bit, so you took out a pistol and shot yourself in the leg]]

You are getting closer and closer to the cave. The blurred figure gradually became clear, it is Scotts family. They are hugging together, eyes close tightly. You reach out and push them. . . They have stiffened. In fact, you are not surprised. You who are strong have been exhausted, not to mention two married young couples. You notice the bandage on William's leg, which is a bandage from the camp(differ with what they have in their bag). Why is there a bandage on his leg? Did this couple come to us after being rescued? Not really possible. William should be well aware that his injury is not enough to climb and look for others. What made him come up the mountain with a leg injury? The answer must be Anna. William must have been rescued but Anna wasn't with him when he was rescued. What an affectionate couple. Now they are dead, you just want to survive. You see their bags under the moonlight. Poor them, they dead even they have a bag. You have nothing but still survive. It is better to fill up your stomach first. You open the bag with excitement, and sure enough, there are two compressed cookies in the bag. You hurriedly take out Anna's sleeping bag and fell asleep in the cave. Although it is cold, it is always better than nothing. [[The next day]]

The bullet passes through your thick warm pants. You feel pain, but it makes you awake. Be sure to go out alive. You endure the pain, and you have to walk carefully this snowy mountain road. You soon realized how stupid it was to shoot a gun on your own leg. Cold wind from your skin little by little makes you cold. You feel like you are losing your leg intuition. You continue drag a heavy leg forward. You can't go out, and you are clear about that. [[Next Page->END]]

When you woke up in the morning, it is already bright. You open your eyes and your face feel slimy. You look down and see Tom's body, to be more accurate, it is Jeffery's skin. You shaved his skin and covered it as a quilt last night. Where is the Scott family? All you see is Jeffery's head and only a few bone fragments. Where did the meat go? You quickly realize what happened last night. God, how did you do that? Although you are a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles, the sight in front of you really makes you sick. Even more unfortunate, you feel dehydrated. You grabbed a handful of snow into your mouth. But whenever you pick up the snow, they will turn scarlet. You look outside. The snow-white mountain suddenly turned red. You broke down, kneeling beside Jeffery's head. [[NEXT PAGE->END]]

YOU ARE DEAD.

You pulled the trigger and killed the companion who grew up with you.You throw your gun, ask for mercy, and turn around and give them the message of the country. They defeated your country, and your country was forced to cede a lot of land to quell the war. But it doesn't matter to you because becoming a soldier is not voluntary. You are released back to the country after the war. You go and tell people in your country about your misery, about your escape, and about your companions, but you don't mention anything about your betrayal. In this way, you get a considerable pension. And because of the hostages who have returned from the war, you have repeatedly appeared in newspapers and received interviews. You joined the mountaineering team to keep catching the eye. You have become accustomed to the sought-after days this week, and as the halo fades, what do you want to do to restore your popularity. Because of that you join this group that challenges the world record. [[Next Page->shoot him]]

You realize how hard it is to go without a guide. There is no way out, the only one of you who familiar with the route is now dyeing this snow mountain with his own blood. In fact, you don't think he died painfully. In just one click, a bullet, he died. You start thinking about the feeling of the bullet passing through the skin and then drying it, without paying attention to the path under your feet. [[Next Page->END]]

You can't help but sigh as you look at your two legs. You turn out to be the fastest person in the state. But what's the use of running fast? Aren't they going to freeze to death in the snow and ice? You suddenly start to hate your legs. It's because they give you too much confidence. Makes you feel omnipotent. To prove this to your parents, you propose to challenge the world record. These legs are useless in the snow, you have to admit it. You are sitting on the ground, beating your legs in anger. There is no intuition, because thermal pants are really heavy. You relentlessly, and awkwardly took off the thermal pants you put on yourself. For a moment you feel the biting cold wind, especially your legs.You didn't put on your pants again, and let the cold wind numb your legs. Then, your consciousness became blurred. . . . No one ever know that you are in this cave covered by snow. [[Next Page->END]]