Sports fans take to the great outdoors again
By XU LIN |
China Daily |
Updated: 2021-01-07 08:52
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Visitors cross the Tengger Desert, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The desert is the fourth-largest in China. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Scaling peaks
In 2016, Jiao Yang set out to climb the 5,588-meter-high Nochma peak in the Gongga Mountains in Sichuan province, but had to abandon the attempt just 200 meters from the summit due to low body temperature and altitude sickness.
It was the first time that she had tried to conquer a snow-covered mountain. However, the failure did not deter her.
Since then, she has reached the summits of three snow-covered peaks, including Nochma and the 6,168-meter-high Chola Mountain in Sichuan. She paid about 10,000 yuan for each trip.