Namjagbarwa, known as China’s most beautiful mountain, shows its appearance in early June. Namjagbarwa means a spear piercing into the sky. Of course, the cloud-kissing peak is worthy of this name.
Located at Nyingchi Prefecture in the southeastern part of China's Tibet, Namjagbarwa is the fifteenth highest peak in the world, with a height of 25,531 feet (7,782 meters) above sea level. Viewing from the top down to the bottom in a linear distance of 6,562 feet (2 kilometers), people could see scenes on the Namjagbarwa varing from snowy winter to evergreen season.
Like a shy girl, the Namjagbarwa usually hides in clouds and mists and is snuggled by the river and valley and clustered round by forest. A legend goes that two brothers were assigned to guard the southeastern area of Tibet. They were immorals. The elder brother's name was Namjagbarwa, while his younger brother's name was Gyalabele. Gyalabele was stronger and smarter, so Namjagbarwa was very jealous. Then he killed his brother - he cut off the head of his kinsman. Both of them turned into mountains afterwards. The top of Gyalabele is round, and the elder brother - Namjagbarwa is very regretful of his crime and feels ashamed of being seen by others.
The most mysterious thing is that at each end of the Himalayas two peaks stand on the mysterious tectonic knots: at the eastern end stands Namjagbarwa (7,782 meters), the world's 15th highest peak, and at the western end Nanga Parbat (8,125 meters), the world's ninth highest peak. They not only attach the magnificent length of the Himalayan chain to the southern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but also fix the Eurasian plate to the Indian plate.
In face of the Indian Ocean, it reflects an obvious vertical landform. In its valley is tropical rain forest and above the snow line, it is a snow world.
Namjagbarwa has existed for over 700 million years, with a great abundance of mountain eco-systems, mountain vegetation forms and bio-communities compressed in one tight area. The first piece of land in the Himalayan region to emerge from the sea, it deserves its title of Number One among the Eastern Himalayan Mountains.
The sky-scraping Namjagbarwa Peak, with its majestic appearance, precipitous shape and unpredictable climate, has been an ambitious aim of mountain-climbing organizations from various countries, and was only conquered recently by a Sino-Japanese climbing team in 1992.
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