Dulit within the past four years thie comfortable Beds at gua etc cle provides verctarlan food The peak Scpleted above. ding is ear the top of two or three bright days in suc. cession s0 we tramped and climbed in wet snow and melting ice. There fare many stretches of the narrow Stone path and steps which would have been very dangerous in a heavy storm or when covered with hard ce. Then one needs an ice axe and rope.
'There are long Mights of steps above: five Inches high and six inches deep, cut or placed often on the edge of 2 precipice dropping hundreds of feet below or with sheer rock rising hundreds of feet on the other side and at' one place the path 1 through a cave. If one were to lose. his footing In some of these places would be "Good-bye" 10 tis world Great care has been taken, however, at such places to provide railings or chains for protection. Of course there are other routes off the main trail where one scrambles to oulstnding peak by footholds has been used for them since 747 B.C, If formerly there were great monasteries and other works of man {in that region they have been large- Yeh! ly destroyed—all save the stone roads. and steps.
'Today Huang Shan is again becoming famous among the people. New motor roads will make it a popular recreation ground and a place for forgetting the little petty' things of dally life in the presence majestic grandeur.
Tat not a salesman for any!
Huang Shan. I only an American sightseers so far_as those mountains are concerned. But 1 say. enthusiastically, go to Huang Shan 'a5 soon as you get the chance.
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