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Gangshika Peak 岗什卡雪峰Gǎngshíkǎ Xuěfēng
4A scenic area · Haibei, Qinghai
- Time needed
- Half a day to a day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Haibei
- Region
- Qinghai
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Gangshika Peak
Gangshika is the highest peak of the eastern Qilian Mountains, a glaciated mountain of 5,254.5 m in Menyuan County that climbers often treat as a first snow mountain, because the approach is gradual and it lies under 160 km from Xining. The scenic area, a managed development that opened in 2024–25, has a visitor service centre at the foot of the mountain, horse rides and walks in summer, snow and ice activities in winter, a guided climbing route from a base camp at about 4,350 m, and a 47 km backpacking route along the Lenglongling range added in 2025. It was named a national ski-mountaineering training base in 2016, and the film The Climbers was partly shot here.
How to get to Gangshika Peak
Reached from Menyuan County, under 160 km from Xining by road; Menyuan also has a high-speed railway station.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Menyuan Rapeseed Flower Fields 门源百里油菜花海 (20 km).
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