The Kawagebo Peak of Meili Snow Mountain is illuminated by sunrise in Deqin county, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in southwest China's Yunnan province, on Oct. 27, 2009.(Xinhua/Lin Yiguang)The Meili Snow Mountain is located at the border between Deqing County in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan and Zayu County in Tibet.
It lies deep in the Hengduan Mountain where the Jinsha, Langcang and Nu rivers converge. It is a holy place of pilgrimage for Tibetan Buddhists.
At this place, 13 peaks are 6,000 meters above sea level. Among them, the Kawagebo peak, 6,740 meters above the sea level, is the highest in Yunnan Province.
Near Kawagebo, 13 peaks line up, like a guard of honor for the God. During the period of the end of autumn and the beginning of the winter, a great number of devotees would come here to worship without thinking of how long the way they have to go.
It is admiring to see that they crawled to go up the high mountain gradually. At the foot of it, there are continuous glaciers and cirques known as the Modern Glaciers in the low latitude.
The complex geology of the Hengduan Mountain and the changeable climate in the low-latitude snow mountains mean that the Meili Snow Mountain is fraught with fatal dangers.
Violent glacier movements have aggravated fissures in the mountain body, giving rise to suspended glaciers, hidden ice crevices, ice avalanches and snow avalanches. Because of the precipitous massifs and perpetual snow, there are snow slides, dense fogs, heavy rain and fierce wind, and it is still a 'virgin peak" which no one has conquered.
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