At 10:20 am on May 21, ZHOU Qianlong, a third-year graduate student from the School of Sports Science and Physical Education, CUG, summited the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, which stands at 8,848.86 meters, from its northern slope.
ZHOU Qianlong, born in 2000, specializes in outdoor sports. He is a national first-class mountaineering athlete and an outdoor extreme sports photographer. He started climbing snow-capped mountains from his senior year, has summited several peaks over 7,000 meters in altitude, and has reached the top of Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth highest peak at 8,201 meters.
ZHOU joined a mountaineering team on this expedition to scale Mount Everest, conducting high-altitude biological research and completing alpine photography as a member of the imaging team. He remarked that climbing snow-capped mountains is highly challenging, yet every bit of it is rewarding. Reaching the summit of Everest is not the end; he pledgedtopursuenew peaks in both science and life.
[Review of the Mountaineering Team of CUG]
On May 24, 1960,CUG alumnus WANG Fuzhou, set out with his fellow mountaineers from the camp at an altitude of 8,500 meters. Braving numerous hardships and obstacles, they made a dash for the summit and, at 4:20 am on the 25th, successfully reached the top of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, from its northern slope. This accomplishment marked the first time in human history that the north side of Everest had been summited. He has written a glorious page for the history of mountaineering in the world, and he is also the China’s first athlete tosummitMount Everest.
Four teachers and students from CUG’s mountaineering team summited Mount Everest from the north slope at 8:16 am on May 19, 2012.This marked the first time a student mountaineering team independently organized by a domestic university, had reached the top of Everest. At the world’s highest peak, they offered heartfelt wishes for their CUG’s 60th anniversary celebration. Starting in 2012, CUG initiated and the ‘7+2’ mountaineering and scientific expedition project, which involved climbing the highest peaks on each of the seven continents and trekking to the North and South Poles. Spanning four years, the ‘7+2’ project was successfully completed, making CUG’s mountaineering team the world’s first university mountaineering team composed of faculty and students to achieve this feat. They thereby created a legend in the history of sports at Chinese universities.
(Edited and translated from the Chinese version)
