Ba'ersixue Mountain

Sunan Bars Snow Mountain Ecological Tourism Attraction is located in Xichahe Village, Dahe Township, Sunan Yugu Autonomous County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, in the middle of the northern foot of Qilian Mountain. Bars means "tall, majestic, and sacred" in Yugu language. There are six snow-capped mountains distributed from east to west in the Attraction, among which the main peak, Bars Snow Mountain, with an altitude of 5,118 meters, is a sacred mountain in the hearts of the Yugu people. The Attraction is mainly composed of snow-capped mountains, glacial relics, rivers, lakes and alpine grasslands. The ancient ethnic minority Yugu people live at the foot of the mountain. Its scenery maintains the purity of the nearly extinct nature. Because of its unique landform and cultural landscape, rich glacial relics and original natural scenery, it is known as the "Qilian Mountain Secret", "the dazzling pearl of the Silk Road", and "the paradise of outdoor sports". It is a paradise for ice and snow experience and hiking photography enthusiasts, and it is also a good mountain for primary snow mountain climbing training. The Attraction area not only has magnificent glacial geological relics, magnificent and sacred snow-capped mountains, but also has vast grasslands, colorful forests and the blue and transparent Snow Mountain Lake. It has the naturalness, novelty, rarity and beauty of geological relics and ecosystems, presenting the natural beauty of "majestic, strange, beautiful, secluded and vast". Almost all the beautiful scenery of the plateau is gathered here. The Attraction is an eco-tourism Attraction mainly integrating snow mountain viewing, ecological experience, natural education, scientific research and popular science. Its resource endowment and ice and snow landscape value are not inferior to Yulong Snow Mountain in Yunnan and Yading in Daocheng, Sichuan. CCTV's "Home in the Distance" in 2012 and CCTV's "Golden Route" in 2015 conducted special filming and publicity for the Attraction, further improving the popularity of the Bars Snow Mountain Attraction.