It's easy on the mountain. People who want to escape, fear or are not good at it must learn to face and deal with it, and learn how to make themselves better and make the team better.
On a sultry afternoon at the end of July, the Taiwan Province Ecological Mountaineering Education Association welcomed a group of volunteers and middle-aged children who were preparing to climb the mountain the next day at the Samsung assembly point in Yilan. Gao Xiaoshan, the project executive of the Asian Adult Bird Project, got up and said hello. This group of "Asian Adult Birds" junior high school students come from rural schools in New Taipei City. A group of big boys are joking and fighting, but when volunteers start distributing materials and packaging demonstration equipment, they are more serious than anything else. They decided the order of items from the climbing distance, and each mountaineering package was full of 15 kg. Moreover, they have done many times of physical training and pre-trip guidance, drawing mountaineering maps and other preparatory work before entering the mountain. The next day was a four-day and four-night field education class, and an unknown mountain road was waiting for them.
The night before going up the mountain, in the base of Samsung in Yilan, every child drew an image of the mountain. Provided by Taiwan Province Ecological Mountaineering Education Association.
In 2005, a group of people who love mountains were inspired by mountains and set up the "Taiwan Province Ecological Mountaineering School". They volunteered in this non-profit organization to make mountains a school! It also makes mountaineering not limited to the beauty and conquest of mountains.
Different general groups only focus on mountaineering training. Here, combining the three major points of "ecology, mountaineering and education", the first five years began with the activities of "seamless mountain forest" to promote mountaineering environmental protection and the training of field education counselors who took people into the mountains. Subsequently, various projects were launched one after another, such as "pasananavan", "Yacheng Bird Project", "Daknapsack Primary School" lecture on natural mountain travel, and "Nanhu Mountaineering Primary School" alpine ecological observation project.
Among them, the "Asian Adult Bird Program" launched on 20 10 was promoted by raising funds, and the disadvantaged teenagers aged 13 ~ 18 climbed the mountain by themselves, including teenagers from Taiwan Province Provincial Correctional Institution (halfway houses for homeless or deviant teenagers) and teenagers from rural schools. "Subadult bird" refers to a bird that is in the process of chicks and adults and is changing its wings. Just like immature teenagers, at contradictory ages, they often treat everything in an incomprehensible way, especially children with low academic performance and weak economy. In reality, they lack love and companionship, and even drop out of school, run away from home or join gangs. When the bird volunteers went up the mountain hand in hand, they lost their arms and could not escape to face and play their strengths. In the wild, they "get what they do", thus regaining the ability of being positive, confident and loving. Therefore, without learning within the system, life will have a different way out and discover the infinite possibilities of children.
Gao Xiaoshan took the reporter from the base to the nearby activity center square. In front of him, a shirtless man in black was drying rice, which was the exhibition of founding Taiwan Province Ecological Mountaineering Education Association. "Because we came here in this way, I really hope that this (mountaineering) process can let the children experience it. Lian Zhizhan, known as Zhan Ge, is a person who loves and protects mountains, is an outdoor sports brand planner, and is also one of the founders and chairman of Taiwan Province Ecological Mountaineering Education Association. Many years ago, he and his wife went to Yilan to plant rice in natural agriculture as farmers. Many slash identities are inseparable from the theme of symbiosis with the natural environment. He also invited volunteers to participate in farming with Asian adult birds, and the harvested "Rainbow Sunshine Rice" was one of the feedback products raised by the Asian adult bird project.
When he was interviewed while drying rice, he stopped to think, but his hand of loading rice never stopped before it rained. "Mountaineering, climbing or exploring is just a process. The focus is not on mountaineering skills, but on what kind of growth inspiration you have gained from this process and what you want to change, not just learning how to climb mountains. Going up the mountain is equivalent to getting rid of the habit of daily life. When there is only the mountain and yourself in front of you, "going up the mountain is very simple. People who want to escape, fear or are not good at it must learn to face and deal with it, and learn how to make themselves better and make the team better. 」
"In the wild, you have to face risks. Some people may lose their body temperature and get injured all day. We really let the children experience with the team. Leaders will keep a little necessary and inevitable risks in the wild and make good use of them, so that children can learn from these risks and see their true selves. We attach great importance to this, not artificially created, but the most authentic forest exploration process. " Zhan Ge said, the rice is almost finished.