Wang Yongfeng

Wang Yongfeng was born in Jining District, Inner Mongolia. He entered the Wuhan College of Geology in 1980. Wang and Li Zhixin became friends in this Institute and they were elected to the Wuhan Institute of Geology Mountaineering Team together in 1984.^[2] He started his mountaineering career from then on. In 2008, the Beijing Olympic flame was brought to the top of Mt. Qomolangma, and Wang Yongfeng was the head of that mountaineering team as well as the second torchbearer on the peak. In 2013, he led a delegation of Chinese mountaineers on Mount Blanc.^[3]