Chinese Yosemite

[Pete_H]

Anyone speak Mandarin?

 

 

http://aaj.americanalpineclub.org/climbs-and-expeditions/asia/china/xinjiang-province/2009-keketuohai-reconnaissance-by-d-gray/

[Hugh Conway]

Nice bit of AAJ hyperbole there:

"Traveling is dangerous, due to ethnic tension between the Uighers and Han Chinese. There were large riots in July and many subsequent ethnic incidents. Al Qaeda has now declared a jihad on the Han Chinese."

[chirp]

Striking!

[Dan_Miller]

Looks like someone else got their monthly AAC email this morning as well.

 

It's quite the nice granite formation. It's tough to understand that the whole area surrounding it is very little climbed. Lots more stuff to do in China it seems.

[Choada_Boy]

Yeah, like struggle to not starve to death instead of going rock climbing.

[111]

beautiful, but looking at the trees at the base, its hard to compare this to the valley. The tower is only about 2 pitches of climbing.

 

Still, it is a beautiful feature that would be an amazing climb.

[111]

...ok, now that I clicked the link to the rest of the article, it does sound like there is a little more tall stuff there

[Pete_H]

If you look at the trees at the base it looks more like 5-7 pitches of climbing depending on the height of the trees.

[G-spotter]

... and the length of the rope

[G-spotter]

but hey why travel several days to climb that when there's unclimbed valleys of granite a couple hours away from home?

[Pete_H]

Because there's no hockey or Tim Horton's in China.

[G-spotter]

But they have better Chinese firedrills and Peking duck

[Jon H]

Those are some amazing looking huecos on the big slab - you could probably take a nap inside one.