Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 601 Avalanche

"What's that sound?" Director Cohen immediately asked alertly.

Meng Tao's expression turned quite ugly: "It's an avalanche!"

"You're such a bad mouth, you've got it right."

The staff member who just mentioned the avalanche was complained by the people next to him.

Lin Yuan walked out of the camp quickly and looked up.

There was a thunderous sound coming from the top of the snow peak, and the ground beneath my feet was shaking slightly, but no avalanche was seen roaring towards me.

"What's going on? There's only thunder but no rain?" Director Cohen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no real avalanche, and then asked curiously.

"No, there was indeed an avalanche, but it didn't happen to the west of us, but to the east," said Lin Yuan.

"So it's on the other side of the mountain. No wonder we couldn't see it. But isn't this scene too exaggerated? The sound is so loud from such a distance, and the ground under our feet is constantly shaking, like a small earthquake." Director Cohen said in surprise.

Meng Tao walked up from behind and said, "Director, you have no idea how terrifying an avalanche can be. You should know that when an avalanche occurs, the volume of snow rushing down is at least millions of cubic meters, and in extreme cases, it can even reach hundreds of millions of cubic meters.

In the face of such a powerful force of nature, we humans are so fragile."

"Hundreds of millions of cubic meters?" Director Cohen couldn't believe his ears.

Did I get the numbers wrong? Hundreds of millions of cubic meters—that's equivalent to the capacity of a large reservoir. Is this the amount of water an avalanche can cause?
This was completely beyond director Coen's imagination.

Meng Tao nodded. "Well, there are records of several ice and snow avalanches with volumes exceeding 5 million cubic meters occurring on the roof of the world. Can you imagine the terrifying scene when this ice and snow roars down at speeds exceeding 500 kilometers per hour?"

"Then...will we meet?" Director Cohen became worried again.

Meng Tao shook his head: "The Yala Snow Mountain can't reach such a volume. I estimate that the avalanche on the east side just now had a volume of about 5000 million cubic meters."

"Meng Tao, you are so amazing, you know everything!" said Director Cohen.

"Of course. I'm the crew's safety consultant, and this is within my scope of responsibility." Meng Tao said proudly.

"Am I praising you? I'm complaining about you. You didn't answer my question at all!" Director Cohen protested.

"Let me show off a little. You don't know how much I've suffered from Lin Yuan recently. I'm almost losing confidence." Meng Tao spread his hands.

"Now to officially answer your question, we are located on the west side of the Yala Snow Mountain. If we had not changed our route, there was a possibility of an 8000 million cubic meter avalanche being triggered on the west side.

"We chose the West Second Route, which is much safer. An avalanche is unlikely, and even if one were to occur, the amount of snow accumulated would only cause an avalanche of 600 million cubic meters at most," Meng Tao added.

"What if... I mean what if, unfortunately, we really encountered an avalanche on the West Second Line?" Director Cohen asked.

"The energy and danger of an avalanche increase exponentially with its size. If an avalanche occurs on the West Second Line, it is impossible for it to reach Camp 3, so you will be absolutely safe as long as you stay in the camp," Meng Tao replied.

"But we can't just stay in the camp. If we want to go to the ice wall to shoot, we have to go through the snow-covered area," said Director Cohen.

Hearing Director Cohen's words, Meng Tao helplessly spread his hands and said, "If we really encounter it, we can only leave it to fate. Although a 600 million cubic meter avalanche can be said to be quite small, whether we can survive it depends entirely on luck."

"Isn't that still dangerous? What if an avalanche really happens?" Director Cohen was a little anxious.

"After Camp 3 is built, I will go to the snow area alone to conduct a close-up inspection and open up a safe passage." Meng Tao said, "Once I confirm that there is no problem, you can come up and it will be safe."

"No, I'll go." Lin Yuan said, "If you're buried, I won't be able to save you even if I want to."

"A son of a wealthy family should not stand on a dangerous wall. Do you understand?" Meng Tao frowned.

Lin Yuan shook his head: "It's just a quick check. There won't be much danger. And if I encounter an avalanche, I may be fine, but you will be dead. So let me do it."

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Lin Yuan, Meng Tao could only helplessly say: "But even if I agree, do you know how to judge whether an avalanche will occur?"

"Of course, it's nothing more than the five-word formula: clear, snow, sound, thick, and wind." Lin Yuan said.

"That sounds plausible. Lin Yuan, do you really understand?" Director Cohen was amazed.

Today's film practitioners are more and more crazy than each other. Do they even need to master such professional skills as judging whether an avalanche will occur?

Lin Yuan nodded and said, “Sunny means we should be extra vigilant on sunny days after snow or rain, or warm days with higher temperatures.

If the snow below is softer than above, or the snow layer collapses easily when you pat it, it means the snow on the slope is unstable and prone to avalanches. At this point, you need to pay more attention to whether the continuity of the snow is broken, such as the appearance of breaks, snowballs, snow rolls, and snow curls.

Sound, that is, pay attention to whether there is the sound of ice and snow breaking or the rumbling sound of the bottom layer. If necessary, you can insert an empty tube into the snow layer to listen, which will be clearer.

Thick means carefully checking the thickness of the newly fallen snow. If it is more than 20 cm thick and located on a slope of more than 40 degrees, then you need to be highly vigilant.

Finally, the impact of wind on snow cannot be ignored. Therefore, it is necessary to closely monitor the wind speed. If the wind exceeds level 9, pay special attention to the snow on the ridge to see if it has shifted significantly with the strong wind.

Meng Tao, am I right?"

Meng Tao: “…”

Obviously, what Lin Yuan said was completely right, and Meng Tao could not refute it.

Lin Yuan patted his shoulder and said, "Leave it to me. With my athletic ability and physical fitness, I'll have a good chance of survival if anything happens. You just need to organize a rescue as soon as possible."

Seeing that Meng Tao still had concerns, Lin Yuan said, "Don't worry. The reason we chose the West Second Route is because it's relatively safer. Even if there's an avalanche, the danger isn't that high."

Faced with Lin Yuan's insistence, Meng Tao had no choice but to compromise: "Okay, I hope my luck isn't too bad this time."

After reaching an agreement, Lin Yuan returned to the camp with a smile and continued to build Camp No. 2 with the crew.

I have to say, when everyone works together, the efficiency is very fast.

The construction of the entire camp was completed around five in the afternoon, before dusk fell.

It was not as crazy as the staff said. We did not go to build Camp 3 immediately. After all, the temperature began to drop sharply at night and the wind also increased significantly, so the construction of Camp 3 could only wait until tomorrow.

That night, Lin Yuan, GAKKI-chan, and Charlize lived in the same silkworm chrysalis tent.

After a whole day of climbing, their leg muscles were quite sore.

Charlize might be better, but GAKKI-chan's legs would tremble uncontrollably after she stood up.

In this situation, Lin Yuan naturally chose to help them.

If not now, when will you use master-level massage techniques?
After some caressing, they immediately felt much more comfortable, and the unbearable soreness and swelling subsided significantly.

After completing the serious work, massage gradually became less serious.

Faced with two such top beauties, one must not miss the beautiful scenery.

There is an old saying: A day without love feels like three autumns.

True!

The sonata of life sounded in the tent.

The chrysalis tent has four layers of air insulation, which not only keeps you warm but also has excellent sound insulation, so there is no need to worry about embarrassment.

However, at such a high altitude, strenuous exercise consumes a lot of physical energy and may even induce altitude sickness.

So we can only let Lin Yuan do more work if he is capable.

……

……

A wonderful night passed.

The next morning, after having no choice but to eat a canned breakfast, all the staff in the camp started heading towards Camp 3.

The planned location for Camp 3 is around 5000 meters above sea level.

Anyone who has lived in the plateau knows that 4000 meters and 5000 meters above sea level are two very important watersheds.

When the altitude exceeds 4000 meters, humans will feel obvious discomfort, and it is not suitable to live at this altitude for a long time.

Otherwise, secondary erythrocytosis is likely to occur, leading to increased blood viscosity and thus causing various cardiovascular diseases.

In addition, there are also high-altitude cardiopulmonary problems, skin cancer caused by strong ultraviolet rays, etc., which may reduce human life expectancy.

When the altitude exceeds 5000 meters, the discomfort will be further amplified. At this altitude, it is only suitable for short-term residence.

Therefore, Meng Tao chose Camp 3, the crew's last forward camp, at an altitude of 5000 meters.

There are no campsites at higher locations, and even if there are, they would be completely unsuitable for living.

After a day of climbing yesterday, almost every crew member's legs felt extremely sore today, and their pace became noticeably more unsteady.

The journey was shorter than yesterday, but today we didn’t arrive at the designated location of Camp 1 until 3 p.m., which was past lunch time.

After arriving at the camping site, everyone skillfully divided into three groups according to yesterday's assignment and started working.

Camp No. 3 only requires 5 tents, which are enough to support 20 people, so it took more than an hour to complete the construction of the camp.

Lin Yuan finished his lunch first. Looking at the crew members who were still eating and looked tired and hungry, he stood up and walked out.

"Lin Yuan, where are you going?" Meng Tao called him from behind.

GAKKI-chan, Charlize and director Cohen also followed.

"As we said yesterday, I'm going to check the snow layer. You guys wait for me in the camp, I'll be back soon, it's nothing serious." Lin Yuan said.

"We can't set a flag now!" said Meng Tao.

"Don't be superstitious about metaphysics. Instead of believing in this, you might as well make some preparations so that you can save me quickly if something happens." Lin Yuan said with a smile.

"Pooh, pooh, pooh! You really have no taboos!" Meng Tao said anxiously.

"As expected, you are from the Hong Kong circle and you are superstitious. I heard that you people there particularly believe in Wong Tai Sin?" Lin Yuan asked curiously.

"You really don't believe it at all?" Meng Tao asked.

"I am a staunch materialist fighter." Lin Yuan shook his head.

Meng Tao helplessly spread his hands. "You say I've been tainted by the Hong Kong world, but you're a Chinese who grew up in New York, and you're telling me you're a materialist? Do you have the wherewithal?" "In the old house I lived in, there was a complete set of Mao's Selected Works on the bedside table, didn't you?" Lin Yuan said disdainfully, "If you don't read the teacher's books, you'll always be a bug in your thinking."

After saying that, he stopped complaining about Meng Tao and instead hugged GAKKI and Charlize.

"I'll go clear a path for everyone so we can start filming without worry."

GAKKI nodded and said, "It's safest for you to do this, Daddy!"

Charlize smiled and said, "I'll wait for you to come back for dinner."

Lin Yuan waved goodbye to them and walked towards the snow-covered area alone.

It was already afternoon, and the bright sun was even more dazzling in the high altitude areas with thin air.

"The sky cleared up after the rain, but it was not a good start." Lin Yuan complained.

According to the "clear" character in the five-character formula, we should be especially alert to sunny days after snowfall or warm days with higher temperatures.

Although not all situations described in the Five-Character Formula will lead to an avalanche, it is certain that the fewer phenomena that meet the requirements, the lower the probability of an avalanche.

This can be considered a bad start.

Lin Yuan quickened his pace and trotted forward.

Soon, he stepped into the snowy area and his speed suddenly slowed down.

Children in the south may not have the idea that walking in the snow, especially in knee-deep snow, is completely different from walking on flat ground.

When walking on flat ground, there is no obstruction and you can move forward freely.

If you walk in the thick snow as if you were walking on flat ground, your feet would probably be covered in layers of snow as you walked.

Not to mention whether the pants would get wet by the snow, the huge resistance would be unbearable.

Therefore, you can only lift your feet and walk step by step from top to bottom.

Obviously, you won't be able to move faster if you walk this way.

Lin Yuan walked step by step, going deeper into the snow layer, even though every step seemed heavy and slow.

It wasn't that walking in the snow was difficult for him, but that he was using his steps to feel the touch transmitted back from his feet.

With each step taken, the trampling feeling transmitted back from the top layer is the obvious feeling of ice chips breaking, and then going down, there is a muddy feeling of ice and snow mixed together, which seems a bit sticky, and further down, there is a dry snow layer.

Lin Yuan knew that the snow layer here should be the dry snow layer at the bottom, and this dry snow layer should be quite soft.

When you step down, the force of your foot landing can be greatly cushioned, and there will be no obvious feeling of bumping and obstruction.

If this soft snow layer is thick enough, it can even cushion the impact of humans jumping from a high place.

For example, the Russians in Siberia like to play the "jumping off a building" game after the heavy snow in winter.

The pleasure of jumping from the roof of a seven or eight-story building into a pile of soft snow is unimaginable.

But the feeling under Lin Yuan's feet at this moment was not soft at all.

Because of the heavy rain a few days ago, a large amount of water seeped into the originally soft snow layer.

The top layer of snow turned into ice chips, the middle layer turned into snow mud, and although the bottom layer of snow did not absorb water, it was no longer soft but became somewhat thick under the pressure of the top two layers.

The information sent back from under his feet was mixed for Lin Yuan.

He didn't even need to dig a vertical snow pit to know that the snow below must be softer than that above.

According to the word "snow", this means that the entire snow-covered area is in a "top-heavy" structure.

This structure is definitely not reliable.

But the good thing is that this top-heavy situation is not caused by the snow layer itself, but is caused by the interference of rain.

The rain not only makes the structure of the snow-covered area "top-heavy", but also makes the snow layers more densely connected, and the stress between them is several levels stronger than that of dry snow layers.

Lin Yuan took out a hollow trekking pole from his backpack and inserted it under his feet.

He put his ear close to one end and listened carefully to the sound coming back.

This action lasted for five minutes before Lin Yuan straightened up in satisfaction:
I didn't hear any suspicious noises, which was a good thing.

At this point, Lin Yuan has preliminarily explored this snow-covered area.

It's a little dangerous, but it shouldn't be a big problem, he concluded in his mind.

"Lin Yuan, how are you doing?" At this time, Meng Tao's voice came from the headphones.

"It's okay. Apart from the slight impact of the temperature rise caused by the sunny weather, there are no other major problems. How is the wind speed measured there?" Lin Yuan asked.

"The wind is at level 6 to 7, and no snow accumulation on the ridges has been observed." Meng Tao replied.

"So, the overall danger level is not high?" Lin Yuan asked.

"It seems like this..."

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Meng Tao had just said half of his words when a loud thunderous sound was heard.

"Damn it, what happened? There's another avalanche on Dongpo?" Meng Tao cursed in the communication channel, "Why is it so loud? It's endless!"

"No, look north!" Director Cohen shouted.

north?

Isn’t that the original location of the West Front Line?
The distance there was not far, so Lin Yuan turned his head and looked towards the north.

I saw that on the western front line, a large area of ​​snow slid down as if a landslide had occurred, making a terrible loud noise.

Is this the avalanche effect of tens of millions of cubic meters?
Looking at the avalanche happening in the distance, Lin Yuan felt a strange sense of contradiction:
On the one hand, because of the distance, he could not directly feel the true power of the avalanche, but just felt that a large section of the hillside slid down.

But on the other hand, reason told him that this was tens of millions of cubic meters of snow, accompanied by more than millions of cubic meters of rocks of various sizes, and the destructive power would definitely be earth-shattering.

The rumbling sound circling in the air and the vibration coming from under your feet are proof of this.

Loud noise?

shock?

Suddenly, a bad thought flashed through Lin Yuan's mind:
West Line 2 is not particularly far from West Line 1. Will the avalanche on West Line 1 trigger a chain reaction, causing an avalanche on West Line 2 as well?
Lin Yuan began to walk back quickly.

But before he had taken a few steps, he heard Meng Tao's terrified shouts in his earphones: "Damn it! Lin Yuan, the avalanche is coming! Look at your 2 o'clock direction!"

Lin Yuan turned his head and saw that the snow layer at 2 o'clock above his head, which was originally quite tightly packed, began to fall apart due to the vibration caused by the landslide on the west line just now.

The huge layer of snow split in the middle like dry land after a long drought, and then quickly cracked into countless twisted small pieces.

The layer of snow hanging over the source of the forest quickly disintegrated, breaking into pieces and turning into a white mud flow that roared downwards.

When an avalanche really broke out not far from him, Lin Yuan felt the incomparable shock brought by nature.

It was like thunder ringing in his ears, making them buzz.

There was a violent movement under his feet, and he felt like a drunkard, tossing back and forth and unable to stand still for a while.

"Run! Lin Yuan! Run!" Meng Tao's voice came from the headphones.

run?
You must run.

How could one possibly escape with just human legs?
Lin Yuan opened his huge backpack and took out a ski board.

At first he thought it was troublesome to carry this thing around and wondered if he was being too cautious.

But now it seems that we are not cautious at all, and we should be more cautious.

He quickly slipped his feet onto his skis and began to slide down using gravity.

Lin Yuan's skiing skills are quite good. Although he does not have master-level skiing techniques, his incredible nerve reaction speed, body coordination and sense of balance, coupled with a lot of training before, make his skiing skills also world-class.

Under the influence of gravity, he began to slide down rapidly, and his speed was getting faster and faster.

"Huhuhu~"

The wind whistled in his ears.

At this time, Lin Yuan abandoned all unnecessary techniques and had only one goal, which was: fast!
Faster, faster!
Lin Yuan knew that no matter how fast he ran, he would never be able to completely escape the range of the avalanche.

He was bound to be involved.

But the farther he ran, the smaller the impact of the avalanche would be, the shallower he would be buried, and the easier it would be to rescue him.

Lin Yuan went down all the way, with no distractions, just wanting to go further.

The avalanche was approaching behind him, and the sound seemed to be sticking to his back.

Finally, he was swallowed up by the roaring avalanche.

The moment he was caught in the avalanche, Lin Yuan felt like a piece of driftwood in a rapids, sometimes spinning sideways and sometimes rolling vertically.

Waves of dizziness came over me, and time seemed to have stood still. I couldn't tell east from west, south from east, and had no idea where I was.

It was as if he had fallen into a huge washing machine. The centrifugal force generated by the rapid rotation made him feel nauseous and wanted to vomit, but he couldn't vomit.

Spinning, rolling, his back was hit, and he tried his best to push away the hard objects around him with his feet.

It was like a nightmare from which one could never wake up, and this feeling kept repeating itself...

(End of this chapter)