The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River are from Lizi, through the Lazi, Rikaze, Qushui and Zedang, to Mailing County, with a length of 1,340 kilometers. The main distributaries of the Yarlung Zangbo River flow into the trunk river in the middle reaches. This segment can provide advantageous conditions for the plateau shipment due to its abundant water quantities, broad river surfaces and deep water. Rubber and wood boats can float from the western Lazi to the eastern Zedang, navigation segment that is about 400 kilometers in length. It is the highest river segment of navigation in the world. With plenty of sunlight, good irrigation conditions and sparse population, it is the richest and most important agricultural area known as the Grain Barn of Tibet. The main crops include highland barley, potato and wheat.

The lower reaches are from Paixiang of Mailing County to the Baxika, with a length of 496 kilometers. The vertical drop height from the Namjagabrwa Peak to the water surface of the Yarlung Zangbo River is 7,100 meters, so it is reputed as the deepest Grand Canyon (i.e. the Grand Canyon of the Yarlung Zangbo River) in the world. The river is narrow here, the reefs are everywhere on the riverbed, the river water is rapidly rushing and the waves are high. The spectacular downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River has been the paradise of explorers all through the ages.

Qomolangma

Qomolangma (Everest), the main peak of the Himalayas, is the highest peak on earth. In Tibetan Language, Qomolangma means "The Third Goddess."

Qomolangma, shaped like a gigantic Pyramid and full of power and grandeur, towers into the sky while its land features are extremely precipitous and its enviroment is quite complicated. The snow line of the north slope is 5,800 to 6,200 meters and that of the south 5,500 - 6,100 meters. Three great cliffs, which are generally named the North Cliff, the East Cliff and the Southwest Cliff, are embraced by the Northeast Ridge, the Southeast Ridge and the West Ridge. Between the ridges and cliffs scattered with 548 continental glaciers, totaling an area of l,457.07 square kilometers, with an area of Alpine glaciers exceeding 100,1000 square kilometers. The greatest glacier, 26 kilometers long, has an average thickness of 120 meters with the thickest more than 300 meters. The glaciers vary in type, the greatest being of upward 7,260 meters in height. The constant supply of the glaciers is mainly offered by the metamorphism of accumulated snow of the two great precipitation belts in the monsoon belt of the Indian Ocean. In these glaciers, there are various kinds of surpassingly beautiful and rare forests of ice towers, cliffs of dozens of meters and open and hidden crevasses with lots of pitfalls here and there as well as the perilous area of ice and snow avalanches.

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