When Nanhu's snowfields are at their most inhospitable, they can be shrouded in fog for ten or more days running, and the cold wind can be unbearably fierce. All he can do is huddle in his 36-square-foot tent, as if it were a jail cell, and pray for a change in the weather-although Old Man Weather may just look on coldly and refuse to cooperate.
在南湖雪地最難熬的情況是，連續十幾天烏雲蔽空、寒風凜冽，每天只能窩在活動空間約一坪大的帳棚裡「坐藝術監」，唯一能做的就是祈禱天氣趕快放晴，但老天爺總是寒著臉拒絕。