Toumingmengke Glacier
Toumingmengke Glacier, the largest valley glacier in the Qilian Range, is 10.1 kilometers long and covers an area of 21.9 square kilometers. It can be found in Laohu Valley on the northern slope of Daxue Mountain in Subei County. Its main peak is 5,481 meters above sea level. In Mongolian, Toumingmengke means high and vast.
The ice surface is clean, the snow field is wide and the ice body is unique in shape, which could bring strong shock and inspiration to tourists, featured of high stability, high bearing, rareness and multi layers. With high development values, Toumingmengke Glacier is appraised one of the six most beautiful glaciers in China by The Magazine of Chinese Geography.
Toumingmengke Glacier is mysterious natural scenery with vast scale and many fantastic configurations. Seeing the world of crystal, you will feel a transparent dreamworld. Standing on the glacier, you will feel an expansive universe and dwarfed other mountain. In a word, it is vast, splendid and majestic.
As Toumingmengke developed in an arid environment, it has the physical properties of a typical continental glacier. The glacier’s only loss of heat comes from evaporation and because it hardly melts, the glacier has changed little. Its stability is demonstrated by its average annual retreat of only 0.94 meter, estimated by movement of the glacier markers between 1985 and 2002.
Admission fee: Free
Opening hours: The whole day