
China's mountains have shaped its culture, philosophy, religion, and art more profoundly than perhaps any other geographical feature. The Five Sacred Mountains hold supreme Taoist significance, while ranges like Huangshan and Emei inspired a thousand years of ink landscape paintings.
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Anhui's iconic mountain range of granite peaks, twisted pines, and rolling cloud seas has inspired Chinese landscape painters for over a millennium and remains China's most photographed mountain.
The easternmost of the Five Sacred Mountains in Shandong has been climbed by emperors, poets, and pilgrims for 3,000 years โ Confucius ascended it and reportedly said the world looked small.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sichuan, Mount Emei is one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains and home to dozens of ancient temples and the famously bold Tibetan macaques.

Accessible by the world's longest cable car, Tianmen Mountain features a dramatic natural arch 131 metres tall and the vertiginous glass-floored Coiling Dragon Cliff boardwalk.
The highest of China's sacred Buddhist mountains in Shanxi Province is crowned by 53 temples and monasteries and considered the earthly home of the Bodhisattva Manjushri.
Shaanxi's most dramatic mountain features the world's most dangerous hiking trail โ a series of iron chains, narrow wooden planks, and crampons bolted into near-vertical granite cliffs.

The Chinese side of the world's highest mountain, accessed through Tibet, offers a more remote and austere approach to Base Camp at 5,200 metres than the better-known Nepalese route.
The sacred mountain of the Naxi people near Lijiang in Yunnan rises to 5,596 metres, its 13 permanently snow-capped peaks visible for over 100 kilometres across the surrounding plateau.

The four peaks of this stunning Sichuan range crown glacial valleys of wildflower meadows and yak pastures, offering some of western China's most accessible alpine scenery.

Xinjiang's remote Altai mountains contain turquoise glacial lakes, Tuvan nomad settlements, and forests of Siberian larch that turn golden in autumn, a landscape unlike anything else in China.
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Anhui's iconic mountain range of granite peaks, twisted pines, and rolling cloud seas has inspired Chinese landscape painters for over a millennium and remains China's most photographed mountain.
The easternmost of the Five Sacred Mountains in Shandong has been climbed by emperors, poets, and pilgrims for 3,000 years โ Confucius ascended it and reportedly said the world looked small.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sichuan, Mount Emei is one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains and home to dozens of ancient temples and the famously bold Tibetan macaques.

Accessible by the world's longest cable car, Tianmen Mountain features a dramatic natural arch 131 metres tall and the vertiginous glass-floored Coiling Dragon Cliff boardwalk.
The highest of China's sacred Buddhist mountains in Shanxi Province is crowned by 53 temples and monasteries and considered the earthly home of the Bodhisattva Manjushri.
Shaanxi's most dramatic mountain features the world's most dangerous hiking trail โ a series of iron chains, narrow wooden planks, and crampons bolted into near-vertical granite cliffs.

The Chinese side of the world's highest mountain, accessed through Tibet, offers a more remote and austere approach to Base Camp at 5,200 metres than the better-known Nepalese route.
The sacred mountain of the Naxi people near Lijiang in Yunnan rises to 5,596 metres, its 13 permanently snow-capped peaks visible for over 100 kilometres across the surrounding plateau.

The four peaks of this stunning Sichuan range crown glacial valleys of wildflower meadows and yak pastures, offering some of western China's most accessible alpine scenery.

Xinjiang's remote Altai mountains contain turquoise glacial lakes, Tuvan nomad settlements, and forests of Siberian larch that turn golden in autumn, a landscape unlike anything else in China.
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