There are endless snow-capped mountains, endless grasslands, clear lakes, reflections of white clouds and flocks of wild animals. It sounds like a wonderful world, and some people even think it is a paradise for life, which can wash the soul. This is Hoh Xil.
Many adventure lovers have a beautiful yearning for the embrace of Hoh Xil, and even recruit companions to Hoh Xil online or in real life. Often these people will bring a lot of trouble to the staff of the rescue station. The lucky ones can be rescued by the staff, and the unlucky ones can also be found, but only the remains may be found.
In fact, it is very dangerous to rush into the no-man's land when you are completely unfamiliar with the topography and climate of Hoh Xil. Even rescuers who are very familiar with the environment in Hoh Xil should be fully prepared to enter the no-man's land.
Although the official and government's attitude is so clear, there are still many explorers and tourists who regard crossing Hoh Xil as their dreams, break into it at will, and finally "sleep" in the beautiful and dangerous Hoh Xil.
In March 2020, a tourist posted relevant information through social platforms when he entered the no-man's land in Hoh Xil, and said in a chat with friends that Hoh Xil was completely different from his imagination, with neither green mountains and green waters nor wild animals running all over the ground. Four months later, rescuers found his body in a stagnant pool north of National Highway 109.
On September 4, 2020, after many unauthorized intrusions in Hoh Xil led to loss of contact or even death, the Golmud Public Security Bureau of Qinghai Province issued a notice to resolutely prohibit and severely crack down on any individual or group entering the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve at will. Whether it is a private car or a taxi, you need to go to the public security organ for filing before going to Hoh Xil.
At first, people thought that Hoh Xil was a paradise. Now, it seems to be becoming a forbidden area in people's minds. What caused this? In the no-man's land of Hoh Xil, what can pose a threat to mankind and even take away human life?
Hoh Xil is actually a very romantic name, which means "beautiful girl" in Mongolian and "beautiful castle peak" in Tibetan. Hoh Xil Nature Reserve is one of the nature reserves with the largest area, the highest altitude and the richest resources in China, and it is also one of the best preserved nature reserves in the world.
Hoh Xil Nature Reserve is located in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Golmud City, Haixi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, bordering Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xizang Autonomous Region, with a total area of about1120,000 mu. 20 17, the reserve is listed as a world natural heritage. Since then, countless people have come to explore, but they have not realized the hidden dangers in this seemingly beautiful area.
Hoh Xil is about 5 kilometers above sea level, which belongs to the alpine climate and is not suitable for human habitation, which is one of the reasons why Hoh Xil has become the third largest no-man's land in the world.
In the warmest area of Hoh Xil, the temperature is about MINUS 4 degrees Celsius in the warmest time of the year, while in the coldest area of Hoh Xil, the temperature is about MINUS 10 degrees Celsius in the warmest time of the year, and it can even reach MINUS 46 degrees Celsius in the coldest time. If there is not enough heat source and warm-keeping measures in place, ordinary people are prone to hypothermia and even life-threatening.
In addition, snow-capped mountains and complex landforms also mean that Hoh Xil has low air pressure and scarce oxygen. The oxygen content in Hoh Xil is even less than half that in coastal areas. In other areas, boiling water must reach 100 degree to boil, while in some areas of Hoh Xil, boiling water only needs 80 degrees.
Some friends may say that boiling water quickly is not a good thing when they see this. It can save energy and time. However, it also means that people in this area will inhale less oxygen than people in other areas.
As long as this hypoxia lasts for three days, people have an 80% chance of suffering from respiratory diseases such as respiratory infection and bronchitis. For most people, these diseases are just minor illnesses. If the symptoms are not serious, it can be cured by taking medicine for two days.
But this situation does not apply to Hoh Xil. Even a small cold can cause high altitude pulmonary edema, which makes it more difficult for you to breathe under the condition of thin oxygen, and even cough up blood in severe cases.
Once high altitude pulmonary edema occurs, if it is not treated in time, it will soon die. Even more frightening is that there is no hospital around Hoh Xil. If you want to go to the hospital, you can only leave Hoh Xil and move on.
Therefore, after you suffer from high altitude pulmonary edema, even if a companion is willing to take you to the hospital, you are likely to die on the way to the hospital or be trapped by a complicated geographical environment. Being able to walk out of Hoh Xil alive can only be a luxury.
Because there is no human habitation, Hoh Xil remains the most primitive state. In the reserve, canyons, glaciers, frost mounds, stone forests and boiling springs are very beautiful. The vast hills are endless, and the open plains are endless.
In addition, large and small rivers almost run through the whole protected area. There are 0/07 large lakes/kloc with an area of more than 247 mu, and more than 7,000 small lakes. Among all the lakes, the largest lake in Qinghai is Ulan Wuer Lake, with an area of over 6.5438+0.3 million mu, and it is also the fourth largest lake in Qinghai.
However, behind such beautiful scenery, there are threats that human beings cannot overcome. The landform of Hoh Xil is very complicated, and there are quicksand, swamps or wetlands everywhere. Explorers often encounter the danger that the tires fall into an unfathomable swamp when the car is driving.
If you want to start the car out of the swamp by power, it is entirely wishful thinking, because the more you move, the faster the car will sink, and finally you can only abandon the car and run away.
In this case, don't take any chances and think you can call for help. Not to mention these dangers are instantaneous, even if you have time to ask for help, you can't make a phone call, because there is no signal at all in Hoh Xil, and even high-tech communication equipment is useless here.
If you really have a lucky physique and successfully avoid or escape from these dangerous areas, then there will be changeable weather waiting for you in Hoh Xil. In Hoh Xil, it may be sunny one second, and it will rain cats and dogs the next, and there will be strong winds of magnitude 5 or above from time to time.
In this case, it is even more difficult to cross Hoh Xil on foot. It's not bad to walk 15 km a day. However, the longer you stay in Hoh Xil, the more dangers and difficulties you face. Just drinking water becomes a problem.
Although there are thousands of lakes and a lot of icebergs in Hoh Xil, we should not regard Hoh Xil as a "country of thousands of lakes". Because most of these lakes are saltwater lakes, drinking them directly is even more "death-seeking".
Glaciers only melt in summer, and the melted glacier water will eventually gather in the lake. So many tourists and explorers will die of thirst on their way through Hoh Xil.
Although Hoh Xil is very dangerous and unsuitable for human entry, its ecological environment is almost unaffected by modern human activities and well preserved. Since it is a primitive ecological environment, there are naturally all kinds of wild animals. For many wild animals, Hoh Xil is simply their paradise.
There are many kinds of wild animals in Hoh Xil, most of which are endemic to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Besides the most representative and famous Tibetan antelope, wild yak, brown bear and white-lipped deer, there are more than 230 kinds of wild animals living here all the year round. There are more than 50 species of birds alone. It can be said that Hoh Xil is the largest wildlife park in China. Therefore, Hoh Xil is also known as the gene bank of rare wild animals on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
These animals and more than 200 kinds of plants together constitute the unique landscape of Hoh Xil. If you are lucky, you can also see herds of antelopes running here with beautiful posture. However, when you think these animals are cute, don't take them lightly, because they are also extremely dangerous.
Wild yaks, brown bears and other animals may take the initiative to attack humans once they feel that their territory is offended. These animals are huge and their strength cannot be underestimated. It is difficult for human beings to confront it with their bare hands.
However, the wild animals living in Hoh Xil are also threatened by human beings. Since 1980s, many poachers have come to Hoh Xil to kill Tibetan antelopes, because their fur can be used to make expensive shawls, and each shawl needs at least three Tibetan antelopes.
1992, Sonam dajie, a local Tibetan environmentalist, set up a patrol to crack down on greedy poachers. 1994 65438+1October 18, Sister Sonam died while fighting with a group of poachers who broke into Hoh Xil.
This incident aroused strong social repercussions. Since then, both the people and the government have begun to pay attention to the ecological environment protection in Hoh Xil, and established a nature reserve, and named the protection station Sonam Dajie Protection Station.
At the beginning, the working environment of the protection station was so bad that it could only be built in a dilapidated shelter. Staff can only live in tents, because there is no electricity, only candles can be used as the only light source, and materials are very scarce. It takes three to four days for a candle.
At present, there are five protection stations in Hoh Xil, all of which have better facilities. At present, about 50 staff members work in the vast no-man's land in Hoh Xil. The environment of the protection station can be improved, but the environment in Hoh Xil cannot be artificially changed, so these workers will still encounter the danger of cars stuck in the mud in summer and endure extremely cold weather and strong winds in winter.
But their efforts have achieved initial results, and the environment in Hoh Xil has been obviously improved. There are no poachers in recent years, and there are more and more wild animals. For example, the extremely precious Tibetan antelope has increased from 20,000 when the station was built to 70,000 now. The number of wild yak, Tibetan wild donkey, Tibetan antelope and other species is also increasing.
The low temperature and high pressure, thin oxygen, bad weather and wild animals that can pose a threat to human beings in Hoh Xil area make the death rate of crossing Hoh Xil no less than climbing Mount Everest.
In short, don't try to cross this no-man's land, and don't destroy the ecological environment of Hoh Xil. This is to protect the wild animals in the Hoh Xil Ecological Reserve, and also to protect human beings themselves.