Tiger Leaping Gorge
Sheer canyon nearly four thousand meters deep, cut by a roaring river below snow-capped peaks.
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This guide to Tiger Leaping Gorge near Lijiang follows a dam that was proposed to seal this canyon shut, and the shifting numbers of farmers who would have had to leave their valleys as the plans grew over the years. It traces the surveyors sent here in the mid-2000s by a state hydropower company, and the villagers who confronted them in March 2006 over the measuring work. You'll hear how word of that standoff reached officials in Beijing and what happened once it did. Listen for the river itself, loud enough to drown out a shout, running through nearly four thousand meters of rock below the peaks.
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