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| Mount Gongga is the Number One peak in the Hengduan Mountains and amongst the most famous peaks in the world. | The word"Gong"in Tibetan means permanent snow cover, and "ga"means white,
SO Gongga means white snow cover. Mount Gongga is located in the Miya Raogang area, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist administrative division. Local people also call it Miya Gongga.
It was nearly dusk when we reached N0. 3 camp on Mount Gongga so we went to the viewing platform at dawn the next day. It was a solitary wooden pavilion, conspicuous against the white snow. Far off in the distance, the morning
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| Quanhua Beach is located at the western foot of Mount Gongga, over 20 kilometers from Liuba Township in Kang ding County. | sun rose in the east, directing an unforgettable "blockbuster"over the main peak and over the tens of other peaks connected with it.
A streak of blood-red light pierced the dark clouds, revealing over 50 steep snow-capped summits, shinin9, dazzling and thrusting
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| The Hehe Lake covers an area of 33 hectares. | into the clouds like golden swords. On the other side of the valley were pinewoods, dark green in the sunshine, like green flower garlands above the mountain fields girdling the immeasurably high golden snow-capped summits.
This"Sunshine over the Golden Mountain "is the most famous scenic view in the Gongga area.
At this tranquil time and place, the mountains and the sky, the sun and the clouds were showing their earliest beauty and brilliance of the day.
The air was quiet and peaceful. Apart from the clicking of camera shutters, there was not another sound. The cold wind that had beer blowing when we came out was gone. I felt as il1 was standing at the same time and spot as the Indian M.S Kohli who Scaled Mount Qomolangma in l 965 and sighed from the bottom of my heart. At this moment, it seemed 1ike even the wind had stopped to rest.
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