Explore All 37 Famous Mountains of China

China's most iconic peaks — sea of clouds and granite spires

The roof of the world — stand at the foot of Earth's highest mountain

Otherworldly quartz-sandstone pillars that inspired Avatar's floating mountains

The most sacred mountain on Earth — worshipped by a billion people, climbed by none

The sacred unconquered peak — 13 snow summits above a Tibetan valley

The eastern anchor of the Himalayas — 7,782m of sheer majesty rarely seen by outsiders

The King of Sichuan mountains — 7,556m of alpine majesty

The world's most dangerous hike — plank walks on sheer cliff faces

Sacred Buddhist mountain — golden temples above the clouds

China's most famous landscape — karst peaks reflected in the Li River

A quieter Huangshan — granite peaks without the crowds

The Alps of the East — four towering sisters above Tibetan grasslands

The Heavenly Mountains along the ancient Silk Road

Accessible 5,396m peak — the perfect first Himalayan climb

The mountain of poets, mist, and colonial villas — 1,500 years of inspiration

The Red Cloud Golden Summit — two temples on a knife-edge ridge above the clouds

Alpine lakes and golden forests in China’s far northwest — the Swiss Alps of Xinjiang

Birthplace of Tai Chi — ancient Daoist temples on misty peaks

The birthplace of Daoism, a deeply tranquil forest mountain near Chengdu

China's rainbow mountains — technicolor sandstone stripes stretching across the horizon

The birthplace of oolong tea — UNESCO cliffs, river winding through ancient rock

Daoist temple complex atop a knife-edge ridge above a sea of clouds

The most sacred mountain — climbed by emperors for 3,000 years

Southernmost glacier in the Northern Hemisphere above Lijiang

Heaven's Gate — a natural arch and the world's longest cable car

One of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains, 99 peaks shrouded in incense

Sacred Buddhist island mountain where the sea meets the dharma

Nineteen peaks overlooking Erhai Lake and the ancient city of Dali

Earthly abode of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom — China's holiest Buddhist mountain

Birthplace of Shaolin kung fu and Zen Buddhism, the Central Great Mountain

Walk on a glacier at 2,850m, then soak in hot springs beneath Mount Gongga

Golden sand dunes with a crescent moon lake an oasis in the Gobi Desert

The Southern Great Mountain, home to 200+ temples and misty forest trails

A volcanic crater lake on the China-North Korea border — Heaven Lake at 2,189m

270 million-year-old limestone forest stone trees rising from the earth

Home to the mind-bending Hanging Temple suspended from a sheer cliff

Coastal peaks famous for night scenery moonlight transforms rock into phantom shapes