Mingyong Glacier

⛰【Travel Guide】 📍Detailed address: Deqin County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan 🚗Transportation guide: 🕙Opening hours: All year round 💰Ticket price: Free 🌟Highlights: Mingyong Glacier (also known as Meili Snow Mountain Glacier), located in Deqin County, Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is the longest glacier under the peak of Mount Kawagebo. It is a low-latitude tropical monsoon marine modern glacier, called 'Mingyong Qia' in Tibetan, where 'Mingyong' refers to a village below the glacier, and 'Qia' means the water from the melted glacier. 'Mingyong' means a brazier, named for the village's mild climate surrounded by undulating mountains. 📌Little Tips: Mingyong Glacier is the largest, longest, and has the lowest terminal altitude among the valley glaciers in Yunnan Province. It is one of the long glaciers under the peak of Mount Kawagebo in the Meili Snow Mountain range in Deqin County, Diqing (Shangri-La), Yunnan. This is a low-latitude tropical monsoon marine modern glacier, with snow and ice on the mountain top that never melts.