Along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway has existed since the Tang and Song dynasties of the "Tea-Horse Road" built via Deqin county to continue to extend to Tibet's Zogang, Zayu, until Lhasa. Here is the Yunnan into Tibet, a major transportation arteries, but also the world's highest and most dangerous terrain of the trail.
Deqin County, an average annual temperature of 4 degree Celsius, in October to next April as the snow period, snowbound mountainous, the county seat a Wonderful Time I Spent Su-wrap. Valley in the "window-dressing Town" fog filled the air, hazy, such as the fairy-like, winter to spring, Bingxiao snow melt, the rhododendron flowers in full swing, clean flowing rivers where snow is really a magical land .
From "Shengping Town" by jeep, 10 km east line, they flew to the temple, in this Seibo Lancang River, rolling Xuefeng Jiang Meili Snow Mountain on the west coast, with the highest peaks are "card each Gerber peak", 6740 meters above sea level, the momentum of the extraordinary. Mountains here are cross-sectional area is the Jinsha, Lancang and Nu straight to the nearest area, only 66.3 kilometers, forming unique in the world's "Three Parallel Rivers" a magnificent spectacle.
Along the road by jeep to reach the Lancang River a bridgehead, and then unload baggage tent, those equipped with an on horseback, they start climbing on foot, however, strange rock slope risk, on the left is the mountain, the right is the abyss, stop-go, go about 3 hour, before reaching a Tibetan village, paused for a rest after lunch, to continue and went 4 time, which reach an elevation of 2940 meters of the Prince Edward Temple, Prince Outside the temple that night we had a camp in the vicinity of Prince Edward Temple, then can appreciate the "Mingyong" and "cards each Gerber peak" boundless momentum. "Ming-Yong exactly" has been from the "card mutual Gerber" peak elevation of 2700 meters under the extension of the Yunnan pine and broad-leaved cross-belt, stretching 8 km, is the world's rare monsoon marine low-elevation valley glaciers. It is like a white You Long, from the high peaks have been extended to the foot of the mountain, directly toward the Lancang River.
Strongly illuminated by daylight, Ming-Yong exactly shiny, ice falls from time to time came the roaring sound of an average of once every 15 minutes there is an avalanche occurred. Can see a huge ice collapse, gradually fell into the bottom, the momentum of astounding. Mountains along the way, there are numerous stones Leiqi made of simple stone houses, are said to come to the monastery after the death of the faithful for their own pre-built homes, because they believed that after death the soul will come back here. There is also a "Mani Dui" and the people pass by, according to a clockwise direction around the walk, and put a stone or replacement of side streamer express inner devotion and prayer. In addition, the magnificent rhododendrons around the hill, yellow rhododendron illuminating as heavenly sunshine, and red azaleas, such as bright red blood, there is a large white unknown purple wildflowers, snow of shine in the sun, the colorful, exceptionally charming.
The glacier exploration, for the professional climbers is easy, but for those of us ordinary people but very hard, but when the realization of a dream, the kind of satisfaction is not a pen can describe it really.