Cheating death After spending over a month leading his team from base camp to Camp III in order to give them time to adapt to the altitude, Gau decided on a two-team assault on the summit. If he and Chen Yu-nan, the two most likely to succeed, headed out first and succeeded, they could provide a morale boost to the two members of the second team.
1996 年 3 月初高銘和帶領遠征隊如期出發，在基地營和一、二、三營間做了一個多月的高度適應後，決定分兩批攻頂：由較有希望的他和陳玉男先出發，若是成功，可以鼓舞第二批 2 位登頂隊員的士氣。