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...views from the trail to Yubeng in Yunnan province leave you craving a closer look at the dazzling peaks of the Meili range, head to Mingyong...
...Kawa Karpo (sometimes referred to as Virgin Peak) is the formidable summit of Meili Mountain. At a towering 6,470 meters it is the highest point in Yunnan and has never been conquered. For thousands of years Kawa Karpo has been sacred to Tibetan Buddhists, and it is the site of a major annual pilgrimage. Locals are fond of recounting the cautionary tale of one of many ill-fated mountaineering expeditions: a team perished on the ascent, Tibetans believe, because it was blasphemous enough to tread on holy ground...
...exhorting mainlanders to buy shares as a way of boosting the economy and their own wealth. In 1999, the People's Daily cheerily declared that stocks would bring "happiness and hope" to the masses, and investors like Chen believed the hype. The 72-year-old retiree from Kunming in Yunnan province dropped $40,000 into stocks, surrounded himself with how-to books on beating the market and rigged up a computer in his bedroom so that he could watch himself grow rich in real time. It wasn't to be. Nowadays the charts on his computer screen inexorably nose dive...
...Maybe it won't go down as the defining moment in Chinese music history. But the two-day Snow Mountain Music Festival, which launched on Aug. 17 on a picturesque mountainside near the town of Lijiang in China's southwestern Yunnan province, may set the record for the highest altitude outdoor rock concert. The thin air at 3,700 meters has sickly Beijing rocker boys taking oxygen hits onstage between songs. The crowd at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969 may have been a hundred times bigger, but "China's Woodstock" can boast at least one thing in common with...
...families from the environs of Lijiang turn up. Miao minority women in ornate, outsize headgear wander the periphery and look on curiously; sanitation workers move through the crowd picking up garbage with chopsticks. I catch only one whiff of dope smoke?surprising, considering that cannabis grows wild all over Yunnan. But the cops just downwind from the lone toker don't seem to notice. They, and the helmeted security guards in front of the stage, nod to the beat?some even take furtive photos and risk the occasional fist-pump...