3. Hailuogou Glacier in Sichuan
Hailuogou Glacier lies in the southeast of Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, east slope of Mt. Gongga and is a skyscraping mountain in the east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.With a height of 2,850 meters above sea level, it is the lowest glacier among the glaciers of the same latitude on Earth.
Hailuogou glacier is also called No 1 Glacier. It possesses 3 steps longitudinally: first basin, the gestation place of glacier; second is icefall, 500 to 1100 meters wide and 1080 high that is the highest and grandest icefall in China; the third is glacier tongue, which extends 6 km into the forest, forming strange scene of the coexistence of forest and glacier. The activity of Hailuogou Glacier is very strong. In the movement of glacier, there forms glacier circular arch, ice cavern, glacial staircase, ice gate, ice lake and serac which are as glittering and translucent as jade and crystal.
4. Midui Glacier in Tibet
Midui Glacier is located in Yupu Township, about 100 kilometers east of the county seat of Bome. It is the lowest altitude above sea level in the world. Its altitude is from 2,400 meters to 6,800 meters.
The glacier descends through four distinctly different seasons of scenery. Here snow mountains, glaciers, forests, lakes, villages and temples coexist in harmony, creating a sequence of unique vistas: the worlds of atmosphere, of ice and snow, of rocks, of water, and of living creatures. It looks as if Nature's hand itself had taken up a brush to paint a splashed-ink landscape.
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