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average 400 times a year has persisted for 24 years
24 years old Kang Wenli insisted on climbing Huashan (reporter Chen Xinru Remake) this period
Kang Wen Li
age: 84 years old
highlight: start to climb Huashan in 1989, average 400 times a year, 10 thousand times
Kang Wenli, 84 years, 1989. After retirement, he moved home to the bottom of Huashan mountain in Ji'nan, and began to insist on climbing the mountain. In the vicinity of Huashan, Ji'nan, once the "climbing Huashan has three old people", the former three white haired old people appeared on the mountain on time every day, but now only a man is left, who is called "the old life star of climbing Huashan". This year, Kang Lao has insisted on climbing for 24 years, an average of 400 times a year. He is very familiar with all the plants and trees in Huashan. He set a goal for himself and finished climbing Huashan 10 thousand times. Reporter Chen Xinru
first mountain weeds clump with sickle sickle hack the road
Kang always an old public security police, from New China, to retire in 1989, he and his wife moved back to the old home of Ji'nan City District Yang Zhuang village, living in a house in the bottom of Huashan mountain in Ji'nan. Kang Lao said he grew up here when he was young, and he had a special feeling for Huashan.
"retirement is nothing to do, start climbing Huashan, anyway, just play it." In a simple sentence, Kang Lao has been sticking to the present. Because of climbing the mountain, the old man keeps the habit of getting up early. At about 4 a.m. every morning, starting from home, the old man can finish a back and forth in 1.5 hours. "The whole time is running in the young, and more than ten minutes can reach the top of the mountain."
Kang Lao told reporters that before the Huashan Park was repaired in 1999, the mountains were overgrown with weeds. "There was no regular road. I took a sickle early in the morning and cut a road up the hill." I am also groping, and the situation in the mountains is complex.
the scenery of Huashan has been engraved to
. Now, Kang Lao has been very familiar with the grass and wood of Huashan, and the mountain climbing has become a required course for every day.
a mountain climb, in a cliff, Kang Lao found a wild wolfberry tree, so far, "from the top to the north, in the" second mountain Jianzi "to the North 10 meters, and then to the West 20 meters, there is a tree of wolfberry in the cliff, wolfberry long with the size of the date. There are quite a few well known views on the mountain. "
Kang has gone through the corner of Huashan, the stone wall left a lot of handwriting, "before the construction of Huashan Park, when climbing the mountain, like to learn the ancients, leave some handwriting, paint, sometimes with a hammer, now Huashan is a scenic spot, has not allowed, but some words now still." He and others also gave interesting names to some places, "old age", "a tree", "Guan Guan". People who climb mountains often call this place, relying on these areas to identify directions and locations.
17 times in the southern mountain area of the Taishan mountaineering Festival, almost all of the southern mountains have climbed over
Kang Lao said that the road to the top of Huashan is more than 870 steps, but more clearly than that, Taishan eighteen Li has 1632 steps, and the whole course has 6662 steps. Kang Lao has taken part in 17 times since the Eleventh Taishan international mountaineering Festival. "The mountains in the South have been turned around, and they can walk around in the early morning without being tired, but they are in a good mood and can spend a day in the mountains." Even though he is more than 80 years old, Kang Lao's body condition has been very good, his ears are not deaf, his eyes are not spent, he can also take care of his wife who is not easy to move.
once and once with a friend to Yuntai Mountain, his friend told him to look at the bottom of the mountain, look at the scenery, and then go back together, but he climbed up to the top of the mountain and let his friends wait for more than half an hour.
sixteenth Taishan international mountaineering Festival, more than 80 year old Kang Lao along with the old motorcade, rode all the way down to the bottom of Taishan. "Someone is riding there and paralyzed on the ground. It took me only 57 minutes to climb from the midsky door to the South Tianmen gate, which is the effect of climbing the mountain at ordinary times."
24 years to climb Huashan is to achieve the goal of 10 thousand
to remember the times of climbing the mountain. "It's too much trouble to climb once. I give myself at least 400 times a year, that is to climb at least once a day. If one day can't go, take a" absenteeism ". It was expected in July and August this year. You can finish your 10 thousand goal, but when you get older, you can only put it first. Kang Lao said, "by the end of this year, we will strive to achieve the 10 thousand goal of climbing Huashan."
the family recalls that in 2007, the old building did not forget to climb the mountain. Before "climbing Huashan's three old", now only Kang Lao in insistence, "Lao Wang is older, more than 90, old Peng's poor body, before all about climbing a mountain, but now is also a long time to see." On the day of the interview, he rarely met Kang Lao's "truancy". "There was water on the ground and I slipped and fell. I rest for a few days."
Kang Lao once wrote a poem after climbing a mountain on a bicycle. He has come freely now. The last sentence is "life is never old, and the setting sun is red."