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Write: Ancilla [2011-05-20]

Peking University, Dec. 24, 2010: It was in summer, 2002. In Shishapangma, the 14th highest mountain in the world, Li Lan's fellows, five climbers from the Mountaineering Association of Peking University (MAPKU) died in an avalanche when attempting to scale Shishapangma.

Seven years later, Li decided to reclimb Shishapangma to commemorate her teammates. This is her story of commemorizing for forgetting.

Video: Feng Xin

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Reported by: Feng Xin, Zhang Xiao, and He Dan

Edited by: Jacques

Source: Chinadaily.com.cn