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“i’ve been hit by tiktok.” recently, a tour leader from hami sea road scenic area in xinjiang posted a video: i encountered a man in a no-man’s land, and he was trapped in a car alone. i successfully found help after hiking more than 20 kilometers in the gobi desert. after the video went viral on social platforms, the man asking for help was dubbed "emotionally stable brother" by netizens because of his smiling face and stable mood.

on october 1, a reporter from upstream news (report email: [email protected]) contacted this young man from henan. he said that he had extensive experience in outdoor heavy-duty hiking and did not recommend that everyone imitate him. the haidao scenic area also reminds you to call the local rescue hotline if you are stranded while driving, and do not act without authorization.

mr. wang walked more than 20 kilometers in the gobi desert to ask for help and greeted master jiang with a smile. video screenshot

on september 22, the tv series "haidao" was launched on many satellite tv stations. following "my altay", it once again showed the beautiful scenery of xinjiang. according to the hami municipal bureau of culture and tourism, the great sea road stretches for 500 kilometers between dunhuang-hami-turpan. it has a complete range of types, majestic and most ornamental yadan landforms in the country and even the world. it is also the only unmarked road in china that can be legally traversed. human area.

hami pterosaur - yadan landform in yadan seaway. according to the official account of hami cultural tourism

on september 24, master jiang (pseudonym), who was working as a self-driving tour leader in the haidao scenic area, posted a video, saying that while he was driving to accompany his guests, he actually saw a man carrying a backpack and a parasol approaching them. please help. after questioning, master jiang learned that the man was driving alone. his car accidentally got stuck in the sand on the gobi desert. after trying to save himself to no avail, he decided to go out on foot to seek help.

on october 1, an upstream news reporter contacted master shangjiang. he said that the incident happened in august this year. "the young man hiked for more than 20 kilometers and carried a backpack of water. he was so brave that i was shocked. he was really cruel." finally, master jiang drove his car and found the car. he helped the trapped yu a license plate car get out of trouble, and finally helped guide it out of the scenic spot.

the rescued man in the video was praised by netizens as "a very stable man with a very stable mentality and good physical fitness" because he looked shy and emotionally stable, and even smiled and said hello. when master jiang and his entourage saw the man digging a big hole to get out of trouble, he sighed and happily sang "digging, digging, digging in the vast gobi desert", which also attracted a lot of praise from netizens.

on october 1, a reporter from upstream news contacted mr. wang, the "emotionally stable brother" who had returned to his hometown in henan. he said that he used to work as a r&d engineer at a major internet company in beijing. he resigned four months ago and started driving from zhengzhou on the sichuan-tibet line, xinjiang and other places to relax. the vehicle was trapped in mid-august, and i only saw the video posted by master jiang a few days ago. "at that time, i was thinking, why does this person look so much like me, but in the end i found out that it was me."

mr. wang recalled that he planned to drive from turpan to dunhuang via the great sea road. “the total journey is more than 500 kilometers, and the plan is to take two or three days. the car is a four-wheel drive version of his jeep cherokee. although it is not a hard-core off-road vehicle, i want to drive it to it’s enough in the no-man’s land of the gobi desert.”

"it was around 8 o'clock in the evening, and it was getting dark. there was still 100 kilometers to the nearest road. i was a little anxious. i didn't expect that there was a desert on the road, and i got stuck in the sand." mr. wang said, since there was only one after working for a while with a shovel and no escape board, he couldn't get the vehicle out of the trap. there was no phone signal in the no-man's land, so he couldn't call for help, so he decided to get up early the next morning and continue.

"i started digging sand again at 6:40 the next morning, but it still didn't work. from the offline map, the nearest nanhu township in hami city is close to 100 kilometers away. if i walked in a straight line, the distance might be only fifty or sixty kilometers, so i decided to walk go and ask for help." mr. wang said that he made this decision because he has 10 years of outdoor heavy-duty hiking experience, has crossed the ao-tai line, and the longest distance was more than 200 kilometers, and also has experience hiking in the kubuqi desert.

as for why he chooses to seek help on foot during the hot day instead of the cool night, mr. wang believes that firstly, it is not easy to identify the direction at night because there is no reference; secondly, the visibility is not good at night, and it will be very troublesome if you encounter some wild animals.

mr. wang's vehicle was trapped. video screenshot

"when i set off, i positioned the vehicle and brought about 20 bottles of water, because i planned to go out in two days at most. the water on my back should be enough for me to consume for at least three days. i also brought compressed food, down jackets and down pants, but i didn't bring any the weight of the tent was about 30 kilograms," mr. wang recalled. the sun was hot and the surface temperature was 50 degrees celsius. "the soles of the shoes were very hot, and the wind on my face was like hot air from a hair dryer. fortunately, i brought a sunshade. umbrella, we walked very fast. it took us almost 4 hours. we met master jiang’s car and it probably took us more than 1 hour to drive back.”

according to reports, on august 12, 2023, a modification shop in sichuan organized a self-driving fleet from dunhuang, gansu province, and illegally passed through the national wild camel nature reserve and restricted area lop nur in ruoqiang, xinjiang without approval. four people were killed and shocked the country. mr. wang said, "i also know that. everyone's physical ability and experience are different. the temperature in the gobi desert is high and dry. without good protection and poor physical fitness, you will not be able to escape even if you live ten lives. the risk is very high. yes. yes. for me, the more than 100 kilometers is nothing. it may be due to previous experience and confidence in personal physical strength. but in the no-man’s land of haidao, you still need to go with multiple vehicles, otherwise you should not go. "

master jiang also often encounters tourists who get lost while riding their bicycles on the daidao. he also reminded that if you are not familiar with the terrain, you must not cycle through uninhabited areas and respect nature.

a staff member of the zhongan special service company, which has provided event guarantees for the dahai dao rally, also reminded that due to frequent accidents in haidao and lop nur uninhabited areas in the past two years, everyone is reminded not to leave the road and go through special areas when traveling by car. if it is true, if you need to travel to special areas, you must be fully prepared, such as fuel, satellite phones, food and water, self-rescue equipment, etc.

mr. wang's vehicle was trapped. video screenshot

staff at the daidao scenic area told reporters upstream that the current self-driving fee for vehicles with less than seven seats in the haidao scenic area is 100 yuan. there are 60 kilometers of dirt roads in the scenic area, and the rest are paved roads. it is strictly prohibited to drive off the roadbed. "as long as you don't drive off the roadbed, there will be no there is a risk of a car getting stuck. if the car gets stuck, you can call the rescue number, and the charges are calculated according to the rescue service standards.”

the scenic spot also reminds you not to be nervous in areas without signal. you can ask for help from passing vehicles according to the actual situation; when there are no passing vehicles, you can search for the signal at the highest point and make a rescue call. use the longitude and latitude positioning of the mobile phone as the standard and call the rescuers. accurately report your location.

upstream news reporter tang hao