A successful businessman, Huang Nubo leased 300 square kilometers of land in Iceland. Beyond his business achievements, he is also a well-known poet under the pen name Luo Ying. Few people knew him as Huang Nubo before, but the news of his attempt to buy land in Iceland made him widely recognized.
However, he humbly describes himself as a "second-rate entrepreneur and third-rate poet." In private, he is even more passionate about mountaineering to challenge himself. This poet-entrepreneur spent six years, starting from 2005, completing the feat of reaching the summits of the world’s seven highest peaks on each continent and both the North and South Poles. Few entrepreneurs, poets, or even mountaineering experts have managed to achieve this.
Standing at 192 centimeters tall, in June 2011, Huang Nubo donated assets worth 900 million RMB to Peking University. These assets were injected into the "Peking University Zhongkun Education Fund" to further promote the development of talent cultivation and teaching research at Peking University.
He openly admits that what he yearns for most is to be a wandering poet, roaming the wilderness. The happiest thing for him is to treat all the successes and failures in life as material for poetry, as experiences and trials of living.
Huang Nubo proudly says, "I am the first person in the world, and perhaps the only one, to have recited my own poetry at an altitude of 8,848 meters (referring to Mount Everest)."
Recalling his experience climbing Everest, "I saw many people I knew die on the way, but I still wanted to climb. The first time I reached 8,700 meters, I ultimately didn’t make it and chose to give up. Eventually, once again, I made it to the top. Admitting failure, daring to give up, starting over—climbing Everest became much easier the next time."
He uses the resilience of a mountaineer who has reached Everest and the boldness of an entrepreneur to encourage students. Speaking about how a passion for mountaineering helps in becoming a successful entrepreneur: "Both challenges deal with uncertainty, both are about challenging and controlling risks. Most importantly, running a private enterprise in China requires patience and a thick skin—you need to endure all kinds of criticism or face various challenges with perseverance. Mountaineering also requires patience."