Not to mention now, even in the summer, there is no need to worry about disasters such as floods and mudslides. The middle section of the Kunlun Mountains is too dry, with only a few small rains a year. The residents living here rely on the meltwater from the snow mountains to survive.

Looking south from the camping location, you can easily see the Tiekeleke Snow Mountain. This snow mountain with an altitude of more than 5,400 meters has stood here for tens of millions of years. It is the highest mountain within a radius of dozens of kilometers. The top of the mountain is covered with thick glaciers all year round. The straight-line distance between this snow mountain and the camping site is only more than ten kilometers.

The source of the Aqik River below the camp is at the foot of this snow-capped mountain. Every spring and summer, the meltwater from the snow-capped mountains brings abundant water to the river, nourishing thousands of people downstream.

After a simple breakfast, the group packed up and continued on their journey.

If you want to cross the mountain with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters to the east of the Aqik River, you can only enter from the valley to the southeast of the mountain. As Tenzin Tsering said, just to go around the mountain, you have to walk at least three more kilometers.

If it were on flat ground, three kilometers would only take more than half an hour, but in this kind of mountain, three kilometers would take a group of people two hours to walk. Just like yesterday, they walked less than 15 kilometers in a relatively easy valley, and it took them almost a whole day. Now walking in this more difficult valley, it took even longer.

Liu Changchuan continued to record some data along the way. His task was to determine whether a highway could be built along this route.

As for Wang Changyou, now is not the time for him to contribute.

But Tenzin Tsering and Austin did a great thing.

There is a very small stream in this valley. The stream is so small that it cannot even rush out of the valley and dries up naturally on the way. However, such a small stream has become an important source of water for many animals.

The stream formed a small water bubble with a radius of five or six meters in a flat area in the mountains. Danzeng Tsering and Austin, who were pioneers, saw a group of argali drinking water next to the small water bubble.

The argali is a very alert animal, so Tenzin Tsering and Austin stopped at a distance of about 70 or 80 meters. If they went forward, the argali would run away, because while the argali were drinking water, the strong ram was always standing on a high place, on guard.

Austin and his men were carrying pistols. Within thirty meters, the pistols were very powerful, but once the distance exceeded fifty meters, they were useless.

However, Tenzin Tsering's hunting rifle came in handy.

Although this gun has been modified and no longer fires 7.62mm rifle bullets, it can now fire small-caliber rifle bullets with a caliber close to six millimeters. Even the bullets are made by Tenzin Tsering himself - that's right, the bullets used by hunters of this era are mostly made by themselves.

Although the argali is a national second-class protected animal, in this era, in such deep mountains, especially facing Tibetan hunters, those protection regulations are temporarily useless. For Tibetan hunters of this era, wild animals are divided into two types: edible and inedible. As long as they encounter an edible animal, unless it is a giant panda, otherwise these hunters will shoot and kill it.

Don't say these hunters are cruel. Compared with poachers, these hunters are actually very kind. How many wild animals can a hunter kill in a year? When those damn poachers are at their craziest, they will even use machine guns to shoot at groups of Tibetan wild donkeys and bison, killing hundreds of wild animals in a few minutes.

These poachers certainly don't do this for food; they do it purely for the fur of the wild animals.

Compared to those crazy poachers, these indigenous hunters are really kind.

Although Danzeng Tsering's gun is far inferior to the original Mosin-Nagant in terms of its ability to hit targets four or five hundred meters away after the modification, it can still hit targets within two hundred meters.

Therefore, a clear gunshot rang out, startling Yang Jing and his group behind them. The group of argali that were drinking water immediately scattered. Only a strong argali staggered two steps and plunged into the small water bubble...

PS: I bow to thank "First Kiss Was Given to the Hand" for the reward of 500.