Mount Huashan

One of our favourite days from the trip was was the day we climbed Mount Huashan. We had to cheat a little and take a cable car part of the way up. Otherwise it would have taken more than a day to cover the mountain and that was time we didn't have. It was still a lot of work though. It took three hours of walking up stairs to go from the cable car dropoff to the highest peak.

This is Jen one hour into our climb. You can see where the cable car dropped us off in the white building near the top of the picture.

Even after an hour that was the distance we still had left to go!

There are five main peaks at Mount Huashan. We only had time to go up two of them, west peak and south peak. The south peak is the highest at 2160 metres and the west peak is 2082 metres. This picture was taken from west peak with the south peak behind us.

This a view of the west peak and the ridge that connects the south and west peaks.

We were running out of time and had to rush the last stretch up to the south peak. You can see how tired I am in this picture, but we made it. We were only there for a moment though before we had to rush back down the mountain to catch the bus.