Yulong Snow Mountain
Snow-capped peak with a soaring ropeway to glacier viewing platforms above forty-six hundred meters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang opens with a ticket-booth tally from 1994, a single quiet season when only a few thousand people climbed to see the ice. It traces how that trickle turned into one of the region's biggest tourist economies, following the cable car built to carry visitors within minutes to platforms above forty-six hundred meters. Along the way it follows Baishui Glacier itself, watched for decades by scientists tracking how fast it is retreating. Look down toward the ice as you ride, past the chairlift hum, toward the ground those first few thousand visitors once had almost to themselves.
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