These are the two high-altitude snow mountains and closest to the equator in the entire northern hemisphere
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain on one side
Haba Snow Mountain on the other
In the middle it's cut by Asia's largest river
A small hotel in a beautiful place
It's unique
Our location is Shangri-la, Diqing, Yunnan Province
The middle section of Tiger Leaping Gorge
It's three fifths
On the famous highway trekking route
I graduated from the Department of Geography of Nanjing University
My college teachers
Are members of China's Everest survey team and Antarctic survey team
Every semester, they took us to various fields
To do expeditions
I've had my eyes on it since then
I love the gorge
When I'm exhausted from work
I'd come here for recharge
Thirteen years ago
Soon after I met my wife
I brought her here
And I joked about building a house here for her
Some day if time permits
Our crew
Five men majored in science and engineering and a woman
Around 2016 site selection began in the canyon
As outdoor experts
We had over 200 sites in the pool
After a long struggle
We decided on the Tiger Leaping Gorge for our first hotel
A site with the highest geological safety was selected
The scenery is gorgeous and unknown
It covers an area of about 4,000 square meters
At an altitude of over 1,800 meters
Fourteen rooms
Fan out towards the view
The design is extremely simplistic
You can see the great canyon from your bed
On the steep side of the mountain
Concentrate different biomes throughout the northern hemisphere
And representative vegetation
A mobile box, in fact, it's rather small
21.6 square meters
It's built in the city
Delivered here with slippers, linen and soap
We tried to narrow down the things we did on site to leveling alone
Put the device up there
To minimize the influence on nature
One can be completed in 100 days
There are public areas
Actually it's creating landscape
For millions of times we tried to find the right angle
The light at dusk and dawn
How to control it
We made a clean tunnel
Kinda like clearwater concrete
Once you walk in there, your sight is obscured
Facing the most beautiful view
Just stay there quietly
I think that's quite nice
It's dry in the mountain, so we introduced water
Wind ripples the water
We can hang out there, talk
This place is actually one of the top ten classic trekking routes in the world
It is also the only selected route in China
This hotel serves as a temporary stronghold
We take guests on hiking tours according to their needs
You don't need a camera
Just feel the process with your eyes and ears
The oldest to step on the trail is 73 years old
Our child and Shuige's (one of the partners)
Once was the youngest Chinese on the hiking trail
About 4 years old
When guests first arrive here
They don't do outdoor activities
"We can't go hiking"
"There's no way we can go through it, we are weak"
And they leave contented
For they walked 10 kilometers in the wild
Outdoor activity can be safe, easy and enjoyable
They (wife and child) would come
Every time I found something new in the mountain
I'd take them there
Running the hotel is hard
But it's also a lot of fun
The last time
That learning made me so happy
Was three decades ago
We had a deal
If it didn't work out
We would use it as a base of our own