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Chapter 516 Midui Glacier
Midui Village is not big, with Tibetan-style houses built of stones and logs scattered along both sides of the Midui River Valley in a well-proportioned manner.Most of the houses are two-story, and half of the upper floor is a terrace for cooling highland barley and corn.There is a neat lawn in front of the house. It is midsummer, and the grass is full of colorful wild flowers, swaying in the morning breeze.

The altitude here is only over 2000 meters, and it is warm and rainy. In addition to fertile farmland, the village is surrounded by dense forests.Now is the season when villagers go to the mountains to dig Cordyceps. Almost no one is seen at home, and the whole village seems very quiet.

At 09:30, Ma Xiaoliang and his party headed toward the glacier along the ravine on the left.The scenery in the ditch is extremely beautiful, with tall trees, green vines, piles of Mani stones, colorful prayer flags and wind horse flags fluttering in the wind in the woods, and patches of crops scattered on the slopes, in the valleys, in the snow-capped mountains, Glaciers, fields, and villages are beautifully combined, like a paradise.
From time to time, there are small pastures surrounded by villagers along the way, where cattle and sheep graze leisurely and rest, adding a touch of liveliness to this quiet field life.

Walking out of the bottom of the ditch, ahead is a lush mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest land, mostly tall trees such as fir, spruce and alpine pine.Above the forest, there is a snow-capped glacier. Her head is wrapped in a silver handkerchief and she is wearing a green skirt. The colors are bright.Charming and intoxicating.

About an hour later, Ma Xiaoliang walked out of the forest. Outside the forest lay three jagged moraine ridges, which were all relics left by glaciers.

"Qihai" in "Cihai" refers to the gravel and silt in the ice. When the glacier flows down the valley from a high place, weathered rocks and silt will fall down on both sides of the valley, forming a line of mud in the middle of the glacier. "Moraine" ridges composed of sand and gravel. As the altitude decreases and the temperature increases, the ice at the end of the glacier continues to melt.When the rate of downward movement of the glacier is equal to the rate of melting of the glacier, the end of the glacier will stop at a certain position. Similarly, the sediment and rocks it carries will be "unloaded" from the glacier and continue to accumulate and increase. , forming an arc-shaped ridge on the front edge.It is called "Final Moraine Ridge".It is also an important symbol of where ancient glaciers stagnated.

When Ma Xiaoliang and his party climbed up to the third terminal moraine, a moraine lake appeared in front of them. The locals called it "Guang Xie Cuo".Its front end is a low dam made of moraine, which is more than ten meters high.Behind it is a huge glacier.

The so-called moraine lake is formed when glaciers melt and end up with moraine blocking river channels or glacial valleys to form lake basins, which then accumulate water.There are ice cubes of different sizes floating on the surface of the lake, and their cross-sections glow with a faint blue light in the sunlight.

Along the left side of the lake shore, Ma Xiaoliang carefully climbed over the low dam and finally stepped onto the ice tongue that was cold and as clean as jade.

Glaciers can be vividly described as river-like geographical landscapes formed by the accumulation of large amounts of ice.In geography, it is defined as a natural ice body with a certain shape and capable of moving on its own, which is formed after years of dense snowfall in cold areas and metamorphism.

The beauty of the glacier cannot be separated from the snow peaks. Only with the snow peaks as a backdrop, the glacier looks more magnificent.Midui Glacier develops on the northern slope of Gangrigabu Snow Mountain. The snow peaks are arranged east to west, like two armchairs placed together. There is a steep triangular peak on the back of each armchair. The peak on the right armchair is the altitude. The highest peak is 6585 meters.The armrests and back of the armchair formed an upright snow trough, like a knife and an ax chopping, forming two huge snow basins. The thick snow seemed to be ready to spray down from the exit at any time.

Frequent avalanches are the main supply method for the development of Midui Glacier.The snow in the snow basin falls down in the form of a huge ice waterfall, and merges into one in the ice basin at the source of Midui River, forming a larger wavy ice tongue with a drop of about 800-1000 meters, which is higher than The famous Huangguoshu Waterfall is more than ten times higher, majestic and magnificent.

Between the two ice waterfalls, there is an island-like hill with a vibrant spruce and fir forest on it. The dark green color is more prominent in this world of ice and snow.

The ice and snow that have not melted for thousands of years are like an outstanding master of landscape construction, possessing rich and powerful vitality.Sharp edges were cut out of the mountain peaks, and the canyons were dug wide and flat. Ice cups, ice wells, ice cracks, ice caves, etc. of different sizes and shapes were developed in the parts where the two wings of the glacier were in contact with the mountain. Some of them The walls of the ice cave reveal layers of glacial growth ring texture, like a large piece of blue ice cream.The cold air came from the cave and seemed to condense into mist.There is a faint blue light on the pure white ice, which is more magical than the ice and snow world in any fairy tale.

In this hot summer day, it is so cool and refreshing!Zhao Cui lingered here. After all, it was July, and it was really rare to be with such a vast glacier. Ma Xiaoliang took a lot of photos, and Zhao Cui started posting Weibo headlines on WeChat Moments, but the funniest one was It was in front of the glacier, and Zhao Cui was actually wearing short sleeves!
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