Day 5: Climbing Mount Huangshan

Early in the morning we took the bus to the starting point of the hiking track up the mountain. After some queuing, as there were quite some people around even at that time, we started the climb. We soon noticed that the whole track was artificially fortified and consisted of thousands of concrete stairs. This had a direct effect on our knees after climbing the mountain in two (instead of expected three) hours, even more so as all tracks on top as well consisted of stairs.

At the top Quanbo and I were faced with thick fog which hindered the sight considerably. Even though we managed to get a few glimpses here and there, we still had the feeling of missing out. We decided to do a short round of about four hours to get a feeling of the track and to bet on being lucky at least at some spots. As the weather got worse over time (and so did our knees) we made it an early night and went to bed at around 5pm, after having packed our bags for early departure the next morning.