Seven One Glacier attractions:
In the southwest of Jiayuguan City, in the Qilian Mountains, because it is by the Sino-Soviet geologists in July 1, 1958, discovered, and thus named "7-1 Glacier". It is 130 kilometers away from Jiayuguan City downtown and is the closest glacier to the city in Asia. The glacier's ice tongue part of the elevation of 4300 meters, the ice peak elevation of 5150 meters, the glacier area of 5 square kilometers, the average thickness of the ice layer of 78 meters; slope less than 45 degrees, easy to climb.
The end of the ice tongue is carved with a monument of "green mountains, snow for the head". Visitors can go up from the special hiking trails, glacier crystal white, winter icicles hanging, summer melting snow and water flying with the wind, fresh river water rolling down, the landscape is very peculiar. "Seven" glacier is located 116 kilometers south of Jiayuguan City, Sunan Yugu Autonomous County in the territory of the Qilian Mountains, found a glacier in Asia from the city's closest glacier, and the date of discovery named "seven" glacier.
Qilian Mountains is the south side of the Hexi Corridor, a group of parallel arrangement of folded fault block veins, 900-1000 kilometers long, more than 3,000 meters above sea level, of which more than 5,000 meters of the peak of the 26, Qilian Mountains for the ancient Xiongnu language, meaning that this is the "Heavenly Mountains", extremely said that its peaks rise into the sky. Mountain **** there are 3066 glaciers, a total area of 2062.72 square kilometers, a typical plateau glaciers. Glacier reserves of 114.5 billion cubic meters, its meltwater for the Hexi Corridor oasis generated by the water base, known as the "Alpine Reservoir". Seven glaciers are just one of the many glaciers in the Qilian Mountains. Driving south from Jiayuguan City, it takes about two hours to reach the campsite under the Qiyi Glacier. Here, a few white tents dot the turquoise grass for visitors to take a nap. The camp is more than 3,700 meters above sea level, and a five-kilometer climb forward will take you to the front of the ice tongue, which is 4,300 meters above sea level.
From the "seven glaciers" monument to look up, blue sky and white clouds under a crystal dazzling world of ice and snow. Seven glaciers hanging diagonally in the slope less than 45 degrees on the slopes, the total length of 30.5 kilometers. The average thickness of the ice layer of 78 meters, the ice peak elevation of 5150 meters, the thickest 120 meters, the annual storage capacity of 1.6 cubic meters of water, melt water amount of 70-80 million cubic meters, becoming a large solid freshwater reservoir. The glacier landscape is peculiar, from a distance like the Milky Way hanging upside down, the white practice hanging; close look at the ice tongue diagonal stretch, ice wall stands, ice curtain hanging, ice bucket deep, mysterious and unpredictable. Glacier at the construction of 5 kilometers of footpaths, set up a "green mountain is not old, for the snow white head" monument, tourism area of about 4 square kilometers. Tourism in summer and fall, but see the ice tongue at the snow melt, water flow four injection, waterfalls, sound shock valley. On the slopes of the snow chickens roosting; snow lotus and ice crystals compete with each other; the grassy slopes below the mountain is full of cows and sheep, the shepherd's tent in the smoke curls, giving a person a sense of vitality. In any case, it's a very different world from the one you're used to, and that's why it attracts countless mountaineers and tourists every year.