Marilyn Monroe Snow Portrait in Changchun, China: Art Made by Shovel
When the first heavy snow of December 2015 covered a university football field in Changchun, in north-east China, a group of students picke...
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China: Mountains, Snow & Nature Stories
Discover China through mountain landscapes, snow and photography from the natural world. Browse the country collection, then continue into related archives on Asian destinations, winter scenery and mountain adventures.
Tianmen Mountain in Winter: Heaven’s Gate, Glass Walkways and 99 Bends
Tianmen Mountain’s great natural arch looks like a window cut into the sky. Around it, glass-floored paths cling to sheer cliffs and a road ...
27 Mountain Landscapes Around the World: From Nanga Parbat to the Altai
Mountains come in many shapes: an 8,000-metre Himalayan wall, a lone volcano above the clouds, limestone pillars on a Siberian river, chalk...
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2015: China’s City of Ice and Snow Sculpture
Every winter, the city of Harbin in northeastern China builds a glowing city of ice. The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festiv...
Burst Pipe in Beijing Turns a Garden into an Ice Sculpture
Early one December morning in 2014, a water pipe burst beside the Tian Qiao Art Building in Beijing’s Xicheng district. Water sprayed in ev...
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival: Giant Snow Sculptures and Ice Palaces
The people at the base look tiny beside these white giants. Every winter, Harbin in north-east China turns snow and river ice into a tempor...
Huanglong, Sichuan: Yellow Dragon Travertine Pools in Snow
Huanglong, the "Yellow Dragon" of northern Sichuan, is a 3.6 km ribbon of golden travertine that climbs a high mountain valley in...
Mount Hua Plank Walk Video: Huashan's Cliffside Path in China
A sheer granite wall on one side, hundreds of metres of air on the other, and only a line of narrow wooden boards in between. The Mount Hua ...
Mount Hua Plank Walk: Huashan's Cliffside Path and the Viral Harness Clip
Mount Hua, or Huashan, rises above the Wei River valley in China’s Shaanxi Province, and its most famous attraction is barely wider than a ...
Yading Nature Reserve: Sacred Peaks, Glacial Lakes and the Kora Trek
Yading Nature Reserve, in Daocheng County in the far southwest of Sichuan, protects three snow-capped holy mountains, glacial lakes and hig...
Mount Hua Plank Walk: China's 'Deadliest Hike' and How to Do It Safely
Wooden planks bolted to a sheer granite cliff, a chain to clip into and a drop of hundreds of metres below your boots: the Plank Walk in th...
15 Highest Mountains in the World: Heights, Ranges and First Ascents
Fourteen mountains on Earth rise above 8,000 metres, and every one of them stands in the Himalaya or the Karakoram of Asia. Add Gyachung Kan...
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K2, the Savage Mountain: A Karakoram Tribute Film and the Peak Behind It
K2 rises to 8,611 metres on the border of Pakistan and China, second only to Everest, and climbers have called it the Savage Mountain since...