Hailuogou glacier is 14.4 kilometers long and the surface area is 23.2 kilometers square. It is distributed from the altitude of 2940 meters to 7541 meters, belongs to valet glacier. It is made up of the firn basin, the big ice cascade and the glacier tongue from the up to the bottom. The thickness of the ice body is 120 meter’s firn basin, 17 to 30 meters at the big ice cascade and 40 to 150 meters at the glacier tongue.
Glacier Entry Gate
This part of Hailuogou Glacier is called Glacier Entry Gate because it looks like a huge gate of old Chinese city wall. And the ice wall is 5 meter tall and 13.5 meter wide. And there is also an ice cave hidden on the wall, entering the cave, you will see a different new world, sky blue ice around you and can even see the forests through the ice wall.
Ice tongue
The wonder of Hailuogou glacier, the very low glacier which is only 2850M attitude. Even an old people or a child have a chance to access this glacier from the ice tongue. The ice tongue cut through the cliff and cut into the forests. It’s an amazing place to see the ice and forest live together all year around.