About an hour's bumpy drive from Xidan or a convenient bus ride from Deqin, this sleepy village sits in the shadow of the brooding but magnificent Kawa Karpo Peak, whose mammoth glacierat 11.7 kilometers long and covering an area of 13 square kilometersfeeds a gurgling tributary of the Mekong.
Kawa Karpo (sometimes referred to as Virgin Peak) is the formidable summit of Meili Mountain. At...
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