Trekking at Anyemaqen Shan

Anyemaqen Shan lies in Guoluo Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, west Qinghai Province, and it is regarded as a holy mountain, around which thousands of pilgrims trekking and worshiping the Peak. A'nyemaqen is also attractive for its unique land formation, changeable climate, spectacular waterfalls, and various species of wild animals.

With another name "Jishi Shan", Anyemaqen Shan is sometimes called Majixueshan. What makes it grotesque is that not only is it esteemed by the Tibetan people, as a diving mountain and named "King of Mountains" but remained to be "a blank in geography unexplored by man" even in modern times. In the 1820's many geographers reached a conclusion that Anyemaqen Shan is the highest peak in the world, but their opinion varied as to what was its precise height. Some of them decided it was 9300 meters above sea level, and some 8300 meters...... What makes it more puzzling is that in the year of 1944, as an airman was passing the area neighboring Anyemaqen Shan on the Chongqing-Burma route, the pilot reported to the airfield, "I am flying at an altitude of 9000 meters but a high peak is several hundred meters high above my plane." Thereafter, the "mysterious fog" here appeared even more intriguing to unveil. Five year later, an American investigation group of 70 persons went there but returned without achieving any result. It was not until June, 1960 that a mountaineering team of 11 persons from Beijing Geological Institute succeeded for the first time in human history in the ascent of Anyemaqen Feng on the northeast slope. More than 20 years later, in May, 1981, the Nigata Vekoshi Mountaineering Team of 8 persons from Japan took the lead in reaching Maqen Gangri Feng, the main peak along the southeast ridge and at long last unveiled the mystery of the "King of Mountains."