In ayear of the sheep by the Tibetan calendar Following a centuries-old tradition,they deep walking round Mount Kawa Gebo for at least seven days to pray for good luck under divine protection.
    Of the 13 peaks, Mount Mianchumu is most beautiful in shape and, in the mind’s eye of local Tibetans, is the “goddess of the sea”. This “goddess of the sea”, so to speak, is God Kawa Gebo’s wife. Hidden behind the “goddess”is their son, Mount Luolazheng Guigong, or the “mountain of the red-faced god”. Ethnic Tibetans believe that all the 13 peaks are holy. Beside these beautiful tales about it, Mount Kawa Gebo is famous for a string of glaciers and fountains at its foot.
    Man has scaled on top of Mt. Chonmo Langma, or Everest as it is known in the West, which is the “peak” of the world. Mount Kawa Gebo, however, seems unconquerable even though it is much lower. All attempts to scale it proved futile, the earliest dating back to 1902, by a British expedition. In January 1991, a team of 17 Chinese and Japanese climbers went missing while trying to climb the mountain. The news shocked the world.
    life and folkways, people here have always lived in perfect harmony. The local history has been void of either ethnic or religious strife, with the Han and Tibetan schools of Buddhism and Christianity always in peaceful coexistence. Probably now other area in the world features so perfect a combination of geological, biological and cultural diversity as this Sanjiang area, which we believe will become even more beautiful now that it is already on the UNESCO List of World Heritage.