Midui Glacier Located at Yupu Town, Bome County in Nyingchi, Midui Glacier is a typical maritime glacier in Tibet as well as the lowest glacier in the world with its snow line no more than 4,694 meters (15,400 feet) high. As it’s merely 8 kilometers (four miles) from China’s famous National Highway No. 318, Midui Galacier is readily accessible. The shiny and crystal glaciers, along with surrounding lakes, farmlands, forests and villages, makes visitors wonder they enter a fairyland.
Midui Glacier lies at the junction of Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and Boshula Mountain, where monsoon maritime glaciers are mainly distributed. Southwest monsoon from the Indian Ocean comes through the Yarlung Tsangpo River and Chayu River Valley and eventually brings a large amount of precipitation to this region. Then a magnificent glacier came into being around a snow peak behind Midui Village. The main peak of the glacier is around 6,800 meters (22,310 feet) above the sea level. The bottom part of Midui Glacier extends to mixed broad-leaved and coniferous forests. Looking from a distance, the holy glacier is like a fair lady wearing a silvery kerchief and green dress.
Midui Glacier features huge ice basins, frequent snow slides and wide icefalls. It originates from a lofty snow mountain. On the mountain top, there are two vast ice basins covered by abundant ice and snow. Once the ice basins become full, ice flows down from the mountain top to the basin beneath, forming magnificent ice falls with a maximum height of more than 792 meters (2,600 feet) and width of more than 1,006 meters (1,100 yards). An avalanche can happen at any time, leaving upright avalanche chutes, as if they were cut by the axe of Nature.
