During the first half of this twenty-year period, climbers usually sought help from the aborigines of the local area, but since then they have invariably picked Bunung as their first choice.
山中歲月長在這廿年間的前半期，岳界還會依山區位置找尋當地土著族幫忙，例如：登合歡山區找泰雅族，南部山區找排灣或魯凱族，東部山區找阿美或卑南族；但到了後半期，不論爬什麼山，總是以聘請東埔的布農族人為第一優先。