Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Lhabu Gyikang Mountain

A boundary mountain range of Nyalam and Tingri counties, there are three peaks of an elevation of more than 7,000m from the east to the west and the highest is 7,367m above sea level. Around these peaks are icy mountain slopes and forests of icy pagodas. The wonderful scene is that there are many glacier lakes around them, with the bigger one of the Lake Colangma on the northern foot.

It is not easy to climb up these peaks. The frequent snowslides, icefalls and stoneslides on the icy slopes bring alot of difficulties to the mountaineering. In 1987, the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team was the first successful in climbing up these peaks.

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