The second season of "Poetry Sans Frontiers" continues to convey the spirit of poetry through the form of documentary "video prose poetry", so that people from different countries, different nationalities and different languages can feel that no matter how the world changes, we can all stand together in the name of poetry.
"Poetry Sans Frontiers" is a cross-cultural exchange program launched by CGTN that breaks the language boundaries through the narration and poetry recitation of different countries and characters, employs poetry to tell the story of beautiful love, genuine friendship, fearless courage, love for life, praise for nature and a longing for peace.
"Poetry Sans Frontiers" is a cross-cultural exchange program launched by CGTN that breaks the language boundaries through the narration and poetry recitation of different countries and characters, employs poetry to tell the story of beautiful love, genuine friendship, fearless courage, love for life, praise for nature and a longing for peace.
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00:01 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
00:02 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:18 They're coming our way.
00:19 They're going to shoot at us.
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00:34 [SPEAKING CHINESE]
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01:37 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
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02:01 This is the lighthouse of Cabo Polonyo, this protected area
02:05 that I'm really fond of.
02:08 It's really beautiful, and I like
02:10 the colors of the picture.
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09:14 There is no end to the work. I am constantly working on myself.
09:19 It is a must for me to suffer.
09:21 I can't die this time.
09:23 I have a new height.
09:24 It's out again.
09:26 I have a scar, a wound and a hole.
09:28 Just like this.
09:29 In the shadow of the mountain.
09:31 It's called blue sheepskin.
09:34 The end of the road
09:36 From tomorrow on, I will be a happy man.
09:48 I will work on my horse and go on a trip.
09:53 From tomorrow on, I will care about food and vegetables.
10:01 I have a house.
10:03 I face the sea and blow warm flowers.
10:07 Strangers, I also bless you.
10:12 May you have a bright future.
10:16 May you have a lover to be your husband.
10:20 May you be happy in the city.
10:25 I only want to face the sea and blow warm flowers.
10:31 But he was willing to stay away from the spring flowers.
10:41 The sky is far away.
10:43 The distance is in the eyes.
10:46 It is also there that happiness has a different definition.
10:51 And some people are more outstanding.
10:54 There, the night is more beautiful than the day.
10:57 There, cold as wine, the poem and beauty are hidden.
11:03 I started climbing the 148,000.
11:10 My first 8,000 was in 2001.
11:12 At that time, I did not think of finishing the 148,000.
11:16 But when I do the K2 in 2004,
11:19 which was already my seventh 8,000-meter mountain in Ecuador,
11:23 I started thinking, "Why not?"
11:25 "Maybe I can climb the 148,000."
11:28 That was then.
11:30 I am an ambitious person.
11:41 I like challenges and difficulties in all aspects.
11:47 I get bored with easy things right away.
11:51 If I overcome them quickly,
11:53 I want to move on and dedicate myself to something else.
11:57 Part of my personality,
12:00 my ambition, my knowledge,
12:02 my constant dissatisfaction,
12:06 encourages me to be who I am.
12:09 I think the K2 is the most emblematic mountain of the 14,000.
12:16 The most difficult, the one that, in 2004,
12:20 was a huge challenge for me.
12:23 Let's see how far we can go.
12:37 We don't have to take off our towels until the last minute.
12:39 But in the K2, we had a very bad time.
12:47 When you climb an 8,000-meter mountain,
12:50 the conditions are rough and tough.
12:53 In the end, being able to climb at that height,
12:57 the climate is very variable.
13:01 One of the most important factors
13:03 in climbing an 8,000-meter mountain
13:06 is not just that you have great equipment,
13:08 but that you have to control and know the climate
13:11 that exists in those mountains.
13:14 (Music)
13:17 Let's see, field 1, field 1, over.
13:29 How did you find the snow?
13:31 Is there a lot of ice? How is it? Over.
13:33 Yes, there are areas of ice.
13:37 It goes over the glacier.
13:38 At the bottom, there are some cracks that are dangerous,
13:40 so we want to put some rope tomorrow.
13:43 (Music)
14:09 The descent of the K2 was very complicated.
14:12 From that K2, I came with freezing cold.
14:18 They had to amputate two toes.
14:21 And it's the first time that I've really seen
14:26 that my leg was in danger in that ascent.
14:29 But I never thought about leaving it.
14:38 I think that climbers and mountaineers,
14:42 it's difficult for other people to understand us
14:45 as saying, "How can you say this?
14:47 How can it be that you've played your life,
14:49 that you almost lose your life, and you want to continue?"
14:52 Let's see, when I'm practicing alpinism,
14:56 I feel very free.
14:57 For me, the best moment of an expedition
14:59 is to put myself in a base camp
15:01 under those big mountains,
15:04 observe them from below,
15:05 and feel how small the human being is,
15:08 and how big this world is,
15:10 how much we have to take care of it.
15:13 That feeling is what nature
15:17 transmits to me in those big mountains.
15:20 It's part of our lives,
15:24 and without it, we wouldn't be happy.
15:26 That's why we come back.
15:27 That's why I think I've never thought about leaving it.
15:30 [Music]
15:36 I love subtle worlds,
15:38 ungracious and gentle,
15:41 like soap bubbles.
15:43 I like to see them painted with sun and grain,
15:47 fly under the blue sky,
15:49 tremble suddenly and break.
15:52 Hiker, are your footprints the path and nothing else?
15:58 Hiker, there is no path,
16:00 you make the path by walking.
16:02 [Music]
16:11 So courage is not when you're fearless,
16:15 but when you're fearless,
16:18 you can still go up.
16:21 After recognizing the essence of life,
16:24 you still love life.
16:27 I think courage is not an exclusive virtue
16:31 of the great personalities,
16:34 who, of course, have shown exceptional courage,
16:38 of a historical character.
16:40 But then, I think courage is part of human beings.
16:45 [Music]
16:50 And it's probably also an animal element,
16:54 which clearly comes from our DNA.
16:58 We are thinking animals,
17:01 but we have that ability to take risks,
17:06 to venture into new situations.
17:10 Because you need that strength
17:14 to be a driving force in our societies
17:18 and in our private lives.
17:20 [Music]
17:27 A supermarket where we had heard
17:29 that there was some action
17:31 and we went to see what was going on.
17:34 And when we got there,
17:35 a car full of back militants,
17:37 they had been stealing, looting in the supermarket
17:40 and they didn't want that documented.
17:43 Guys came out with AK-47s and with pistols
17:47 and they came running towards us
17:49 and they were aimed at us.
17:51 [Music]
17:56 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:57 They're coming our way.
17:58 They're going to shoot at us
17:59 and say, "We're journalists.
18:00 Don't shoot us. Don't shoot us."
18:02 [Music]
18:15 I originally came into this profession
18:19 to try and see things clearly,
18:22 go beyond what is often subjectivity
18:26 that is cast upon us.
18:28 And my responsibility is to somehow,
18:32 all those sensory things that I described
18:35 about being in the field and being there,
18:39 is to somehow help the person sitting at home
18:43 understand what it means,
18:46 what conflict really means.
18:48 [Music]
18:59 But I think I've become much,
19:01 in fact, I have become much more cynical
19:03 throughout the years.
19:04 The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR,
19:07 when Syrian and Russian forces launched,
19:10 they were content vying for power.
19:13 [Music]
19:15 [Explosion]
19:19 [Speaking in foreign language]
19:25 [Laughter]
19:28 All of this, what do you expect me to do?
19:32 Fix it?
19:33 I just want to be a doctor or anything
19:36 to help my people if I can't.
19:38 [Speaking in foreign language]
19:45 [Music]
19:55 That cynicism, it's in the face of war is,
20:00 it'll never end.
20:02 Never.
20:03 [Music]
20:18 After the airstrikes, you know,
20:20 they were constant and there was a fear,
20:22 a constant fear of being hit by the airstrikes.
20:27 Scared to go to sleep at night because of that,
20:30 will we get hit tonight?
20:33 [Music]
20:54 We got hit close by, we heard it,
20:56 and the whole building had been shaken by the strike.
20:59 [Music]
21:05 We went out to the street and there was blood
21:07 and dead bodies in the street,
21:09 and somebody came and identified his relative.
21:12 [Music]
21:15 And he was so engulfed in grief
21:19 that he started banging his head on an electric pole.
21:22 And that was, it was terrifying,
21:25 it was shocking, everything was just so surreal
21:27 and so frightening.
21:30 Bombings and death and homelessness
21:32 and people that are running for their lives.
21:34 Why are we here?
21:36 What are we doing?
21:38 I mean, really, it hit me right then,
21:40 like, why sometimes it really does hit you,
21:43 like, why am I doing this job?
21:46 [Music]
21:54 Do I think about quitting my job?
21:57 Yes, indeed, I do,
21:59 because it's overwhelming and it's a lot,
22:03 and I'm not 20 years old anymore.
22:07 The potential of what could happen and, well,
22:10 you know, leaving people behind who would be grieving.
22:14 How much people can lose and be devastated
22:17 and yet still be driven to help other people,
22:22 and perhaps sometimes that gets them through their own devastation.
22:27 People who have lost children
22:29 who are helping other people cope
22:31 who have lost their children.
22:34 People who have very little
22:38 in terms of wherewithal financially,
22:42 but open their homes and their tables.
22:48 I would say it's the selflessness.
22:52 Encountering that, and that is something that over and over again,
22:57 that is what inspires me.
22:59 It's a transcendental,
23:02 and I guess it's just now it becomes a situation sometimes of
23:07 it's what I do, it's what I'm used to doing,
23:11 and that's it.
23:16 But that's why I continue to do it.
23:19 There's a belief that you have a finite number of times
23:33 you can keep doing this before your luck runs out,
23:36 and I'm aware of that.
23:39 And think about that.
23:41 But for now, it's still working for now.
23:47 Whatever your labors and aspirations,
24:00 in the noisy confusion of life,
24:03 keep peace in your soul.
24:06 With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
24:09 it is still a beautiful world.
24:12 Be cheerful.
24:14 Strive to be happy.
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25:40 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
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27:28 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:31 It would lead to a place filled with treasure,
27:37 not earthly gold, but another wealth to measure.
27:40 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:43 I love thee to the level of every day's most quiet need,
27:52 my sun and candlelight.
27:56 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:59 Clear and shallow the Milky Way, they are not far apart,
28:20 but the stream breams always between.
28:24 And gazing at each other, they cannot speak.
28:29 Love you, China.
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