Mt. Hua Shan TeaHouse

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Mt. Hua Shan TeaHouse

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Came across this link today, found it interesting: http://www.viralnova.com/dangerous-trail-huashan/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I prefer coffee myself though.
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It looks like the ingress should cut out the riffraff.
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Re: Mt. Hua Shan TeaHouse

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So, either these people really like dangerous climbing, or they really like tea.
It's neither. Hua Shan is a sacred mountain, which is why people climb it. Some of the sacred mountains in China see millions of ascents a year.
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I was engaged on Hua Shan. My soon-to-be fiance had to seriously consider accepting a lifetime of being my wife or choosing the quick escape off the cliff! People make such silly choices when they are young.

Yes, it is definitely a zoo up there. The tram up to the top does not help. I highly recommend avoiding any mountain that is recommended by people in China. The zillions of unrecommended peaks are the nice ones. It is kind of like Colorado where you can find solitude and spectacular beauty on the 13ers, but the 14ers are usually crowded. Multiply that by a 100-1000x and that will be the Chinese sacred mountains. If they tell you that it is a horrible, ugly mountain where you will assuredly die, that is the peak that you want to head to. Same with the Great Wall: avoid any of the sections that the Chinese tourists like to visit and find the more pristine/unrestored sections that only a handful of Western tourists would want to see.
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