Meili Snow Mountain, also known as Prince Snow Mountain, is located 10 kilometers northeast of Deqin Town. The mountain sits on the border of Yunnan Province and Tibet, where the three famous rivers merge.
We treated to spectacular view from all vantage points. The continuous mountain ridges feature snowy peaks and the sun throws golden lights on the low-floating clouds which form various extraordinary shapes, affording yet another splendid view! But mostly, the mountain presents itself as mystery when dense fog and clouds made it a gleaming sight to see.
It was a 4 days trek for us, the first day we arrived to the remote secluded village of Yubeng, there you can not see any motorised transportation since it is not connected to any sealed road in China, instead we could notice pigs, horses, yaks and chickens wondering around the Tibetan village.
It was a total 7 hours walk, while climbing to the altitude of 3800 meters (starting at 2200 meters), the climb was under a pine Forest, only at top we could have seen the stunning snow capped mountains.
The second day we spent hiking in the Sanpu waterfall, great falls which drop down from the glaciers all around, you can easily see it is a Tibetan holy place with all it's prayer flags.
From afar these glaciers look like a huge white snake wriggling its way among the verdant mountains. it was an easy day walk for 6 hours return.
The third day was our highlight in the trek, although it was rainy all day long, we arrived to the Ice lake which from there we could see the peculiar low-altitude glaciers formed in modern times. Strong updrafts collide with cloud airflow from the inner continents in this area producing frequent dense fog and heavy snow. The resulting topographic extremes include hanging glaciers, icefalls and snow slides. That was in the altitude of 3900 meters.
We started at 9:00 and came back to Yubeng village at 20:00, during the hike we had to watch ourselves not to slip while walking on the wet mud.
The fourth day was the day we returned to the starting point of the trek, the sun was shining suddenly unlike the day before the the sky were "perfect blue sky" as we call it, there was no shred of sign of the wet weather that took place the previous day.
We decided to turn back the same way we came, since the other one considered to be very dangerous, a few days earlier there was an Israeli guy who slipped down to the river and is still missing we believe.
We were a group of 7 people, Baptist from France which we met in Tiger Leaping Gorge Trek, Tim and Lottie from England, Tim from Holland and another Yoni from Israel.
As usual we all shared some nice talks and experiences.
No doubt we will miss traveling here, sleeping in such a remote village nestled in a beautiful valley surrounded by 6700 meters high mountains, waking up every morning seeing this scenery is something you learn how to treasure.
Have fun,
Efrat and Yoni.
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