we have got a good day in store because we are gonna go up a giant mountain it's about 4 200
meters above sea level at the peak there starts kind of off in a uh gorge and then we walk along
a stream we recross it a few times and it's one of the sacred mountains around the area
and it's going to have some stunning views of the valley on the other side of town
as well as the town itself there's a series of peaks actually i don't know how far we're
going to get how many peaks we're going to do but it's going to be an epic day you're going
to want to stick around for this one right high five all right there's the entrance
to the temple but we're not actually going to the temple we are headed right there that's
where we're going oh it's going to be a long one let's take a minute and thank our sponsor jeremy
from wild west rider slash bikewestchina.com he takes people all around on biking tours hiking
tours van tours or just custom tours all around southwest china he really knows the country
he knows his stuff he is the person to go to if you like this type of thing this is the first trip
that i've joined jeremy on and it's definitely not going to be the last you will see more hiking
trips from me with him for sure sometime in the future that being said let's continue on with the
video thanks a lot jeremy i will be seeing you again soon actually this right here is a school
students here they study buddhism it's called fo xue in chinese so a lot of kids yeah i didn't
i didn't expect to see like kids in monks here -- uh kids in -- the monk garb, i suppose yeah
so it's not that difficult of a trail basically we're gonna follow this river
uh this creek until we get to the source it says there will be like a pile of stones
and then there's water coming out of it that's where the spring comes from so we're gonna go
up there and we're gonna hit a couple more valleys or a couple more like green spots
and then head up it's like a couple more hours ooh that was that was kind of tricky these all move
oh all of these are moving boy good luck fellas look at them like little ants
oh hey he made it not so bad god it just gets more and more beautiful
man
and here's the source no joke
come over right here
can't say i've ever seen like a river source before look at how clear that water is as well
yeah it doesn't get any fresher than that
ain't that right and here's lunch don't worry we're taking our trash with us mike's gonna
finally have this yeah this yak's getting awfully close it's it's smelling our it's smelling our...
oh lunch get along move along nothing to see here too it's getting a little more obvious where to go
looking good looking good i look way up there do you see the sheep
there's tons of them that's where we're going yeah now is the part of the journey
where we're basically just following sheep trails just going up and up and up
to there eight or eight thirty yeah and that's our stop in place for a
second oh that's good we left at 11 and it's getting to be about 4:30 nearly
five and this is the part where it gets really tough 3900 meters or so almost 4000 getting there
you're really feeling the altitude and this is the part where i stop filming i take off
my backpack i leave it on the side of the mountain and i just go up because i can't do it all of us
were feeling it we were all pretty tired but it was so close so close hey we've done the hard bit
we're about on level with uh these peaks right here now all we have to do
is just go kind of right there to the ridge and decide which one we want to go to
boy
oh we made it to the top we're sucking air we're zombified we've made it to the top
oh
yeah you can see why this would be a sacred mountain right
i think the peak that we were originally heading for is right there
as you can see or maybe you can't i can't i can't see the viewfinder the day's too bright right but
yeah it's still a ways it's five o'clock pretty much so if we want to make it before dark we gotta
hustle so that there actually is the mountain we're supposed to go to that's the sacred mountain
geez that's still a few kilometers away there's no way we could get
to that like we started this hike at like um like we started at 11 and it's
that's absolutely crazy that's absolutely crazy but this is epic enough
it's like night and day it's sunny up here
and it's dark down there it looks like rain clouds as well
this is the mountain you want to be on because this is actually just a ridge
as far as like most tired i've ever been this is definitely in the top three i think but man
it's so worth it what an amazing hike what a crazy epic adventure that was that might have been the
best hike i've ever been on in terms of the views the changing scenery and just being
alone after about an hour on the hike there was nobody else joining us it was just serene
tranquil landscapes but we had to hustle down it took us six hours to get there and we had
to get back in maybe three hours summiting at about five o'clock and getting back to town
at about eight we booked it down but we did talk to some of the local wildlife
excuse us we would like to go home please can you move we'd appreciate that
thank you much obliged
hey there we go
the other ones are red these are blue we got back to the school that i showed you earlier
right as the sun disappeared it was dark right as we got back to town it was planned perfectly
what an experience what an experience yeah if this seems like something you'd be interested
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thank you all very much for watching and i'll see you all next time from mount mahakala