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The mountain is located about 3 km (1.9 mi) from Quanzhou city. The summit is 498 m (1,634 ft) above sea level. The summit is 498 m (1,634 ft) above sea level. National park
Dinghu Mountain and Lake (Chinese: 鼎湖山) is located in Dinghu District, 18 km to the east of Zhaoqing City, in the Dayunwu Mountain Range, [1] in Guangdong Province of southern China. It is one of the four famous mountains - Danxia , Dinghu, Xiqiao and Luofu in Guangdong province.
Qingshui Cliff (Chinese: 清水斷崖; Hanyu Pinyin: Qīngshuǐ Duànyá; Tongyong Pinyin: Cingshuěi Duànyá; Wade–Giles: Ch'ing 1-shui 3 Tuan 4 ya 2) is a 21 kilometer length of coastal cliffs averaging 800 meters above sea level in Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan. [1] The tallest peak, Qingshui Mountain, rises 2408 meters directly ...
House's Chimney, named after American climber Bill House, is a 30-metre (100 ft) tall crack in a rock wall, located on the Abruzzi Spur of K2, a mountain on the China–Pakistan border. The 'chimney' was first climbed, and named, when House free climbed it on the 1938 American K2 expedition .
Qingyun Temple was devastated by wars in 1860, during the Xianfeng era. In 1893, in the reign of Guangxu Emperor, master Xianchun (献纯) brought 5,048 volumes of sutras to the temple. Empress Dowager Cixi inscribed and honored the name "Wanshou Qingyun Temple" (万手庆云寺).
The Bailong Elevator, 2009. The Bailong Elevator (Chinese: 百龙电梯; literally Hundred Dragons Elevator) is a glass double-deck elevator built onto the side of a cliff in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China, an area noted for more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most of the site, many over 200 metres (660 ft) in height.
Ueli Steck making a rapid 'alpine style' one-day ascent of North Couloir Direct (VI, Al 6+, M8) a major alpine climbing route on Les Drus [6]. The derived term "alpine style" alludes to the fashion of alpine climbing to be in small fast-moving teams – or even solo – who carry all of their own equipment (e.g. no porters), and do all of the climbing (e.g. no sherpas or reserve teams laying ...
In the ninth year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign during the Qing dynasty (1744), construction of the jingji Villa began at the emperor's order on the southeastern slopes of Mount Pan in Guanzhuang Town, Jixian District, Tianjin. The villa was completed in the 19th year of Qianlong's reign (1754).