Shengdi Games: Meili Snow Mountain Hiking Outer Circuit

Author: Huangdumi
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book recounts a journey of self-sufficient trekking in Meili Snow Mountain, where the author carried their own food and sleeping gear, endured hardships, and gained survival insights. In Meili Snow Mountain, there exists a mystical trail that has been circumambulated by Tibetan followers for over seven or eight hundred years. It is a path that takes over ten days to complete, passing through the sparsely populated primeval forests at the border of Yunnan and Tibet provinces, crossing two major Asian rivers—the Lancang River and the Nujiang River—and scaling two snow passes over 4,000 meters in altitude. It traverses ancient and modern glaciers, a journey of walking amidst towering mountains and vast rivers. It is a game of walking that one can only pause after completing a full circle. This book records our arduous trek around the outer perimeter of Meili Snow Mountain over ten days, following the continuous stream of 21st-century pilgrims in a special year.
Meili Snow Mountain is a massive snow-capped peak in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, stretching north to south with snow-covered slopes year-round. The Lancang River flows at its eastern foot, while the Nujiang River flows at its western base. In other words, Meili Snow Mountain serves as the watershed between the two major Asian rivers—the Lancang River (Mekong) and the Nujiang River (Salween). Can a snow mountain capable of separating such two great rivers be ordinary? Can its wonders be fully described? Once you truly gaze upon it, you will understand why humans cannot lack gratitude and why faith is indispensable. I gradually came to realize why it is regarded as one of the "Eight Great Sacred Mountains of Tibet" during the most painful times of my life, and through it, I reflected on the inevitable connection between ancient sacred sites and the people of the present and future.