Kunlun Mountain, also known as Kunlun Xu, is the first mountain in China, the mountain of ten thousand ancestors, Kunlun Mountain or Yushan Mountain. The mountain system in Central Asia is also the backbone of the mountain system in western China.
It starts from the eastern Pamirs in the west, crosses Xinjiang and Tibet, and extends to Qinghai, with a total length of about 2,500 kilometers, an average elevation of 5,500-6,000 meters, a width of 1.30-200 kilometers, and a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. As the "ancestor of thousands of mountains", Kunlun Mountain has a prominent position in the cultural history of the Chinese nation. The ancients called Kunlun Mountain China's "Long Mai ancestor".
Mountain range segmentation
Kunlun Mountain is high in the west and low in the east. According to the topography, it is divided into three sections: there are three peaks above 7000 meters above sea level and seven peaks above 6000 meters above sea level, with an average elevation of 5500-6000 meters.
There are 8 peaks in the Middle Kunlun Mountain with an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, with an average altitude of 5,000-5,500 meters, and the snow line on the north slope is 5100-5,800 meters. East Kunlun Mountain has 4 peaks above 6000 meters above sea level and 8 peaks above 5000 meters, with an average elevation of 4500-5000 meters, and the snow is distributed on the peaks above 5800 meters.