Monday, October 1, 2012

Mingyong Glacier

Mingyong Glacier

Mingyong glacier is on the mountainside of Kawagebo (6,740 meters),
the major and highest peak of Meili Snow Mountain in Deqin County
 of Diqing Prefecture in Northwest Yunnan. It’s totally 4 km long
 and 30-80 m wide. The glacier winds it way down the mountain and
stretches as long as the place with an altitude of 2,650 meters
 above the sea level.
Around the glacier area, there are dense and well preserved coniferous
and latifoilate forests and even humid evergreen latifoliate forests
that represent the geographic diversity in the xerothermic arroyos of
 Lancang River (Mekong River). According to researches, Mingyong Glacier
 is the one with smallest altitude in the North Hemisphere as well as one
 of the glaciers with lowest latitude in the world.

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