At 8:17 a.m. on May 23, 2019, Wenzhou girl Doudou conquered Mount Everest, the Earth's highest peak, and became the youngest Wenzhouer to reach the summit.
During the adventure, she has encountered many difficulties such as traffic jams, poor weather conditions, oxygen valve failure, etc.
Young and petite, Doudou has got an amazing profile:
The first woman in the world to finish ice diving in the Antarctic Pole, the Arctic Pole and Tibet;
The first in the world to finish a free ice diving at the plateau at an altitude of 5,100m;
The first woman in Asia to take photos of wild alligators from a close distance at the water and land of Quintana Roo;
The first Chinese woman to take photos of Amazon python;
One of the two Chinese women to go through Son Doong Cave, the world's largest cave...
At 9 pm on May 22, the Doudou's team began to sprint towards the top. She was the last one to depart, but the second to reach the summit. The tour guide had been late for nine hours because of a traffic jam and failed to depart at the same time with her.
Encouraged and assisted by her teammate Zhang Yuxuan, Doudou continued to climb, “At that time I didn't have enough water with me. I asked Yuxuan for some water. He poured a cup for me, and poured for himself only half a cup and added another half cup of snow. I was very grateful," said Doudou. For Doudou, it was the happiest thing to have a teammate sharing the same mountaineering philosophy. Just an hour before Doudou started to head towards the summit, the tour guide arrived at last.
When they began to come down from the top, they came across extremely poor weather and the scope of visibility was less than five meters. On the way back, Doudou spotted a climber lying in the snow. She and her guide assisted him with rescue measures in time. Doudou learned that the climber was suffering serious snow blindness and could not see anything. Then the guide led the way and the mountaineer held onto her shoulder. Together, they groped for the way and finally returned to C4 camp.
Doudou and the mountaineer ran into each other again at a cafe of Katmandu. The mountaineer was a Sherpa native, who recovered except for frozen fingers. He held Doudou’s hands and kept saying, “The little girl rescue me.”
For Doudou, helping others is more delightful than reaching the summit.
As an ecological photographer, Doudou's footprints were left in 160 countries. She has recorded with her camera the newly-born polar bear cub, a brown bear catching trouts, a powerful tornado, etc. She has been making efforts in presenting the authentic ecological phenomena to the audience and calling on the people to take part in environment protection.
Doudou has also directed a public service advertisement for National Geographic of the U.S. (starring Huang Bo). Apart from that, the documentary film Extreme China co-directed by Doudou has been aired in more than 170 countries in 43 languages.
(Executive Editor: Yongliu He)
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