Over 3000 kilometres long, the Himalayas are China's real Great Wall.
喜馬拉雅山脈的長度超過了3000千米,是中國真正意義上的長城。
With hundreds of peaks over 7,000 metres and 13 peaks higher than 8,000 metres, they are the highest mountains on Earth.
有上百個山峰的海拔超過了7000米,其中十三個的海拔超過了8000米,是地球上最高的山峰。
The Tibetan region contains over 35,000 glaciers that cover over 100000 square kilometres. They comprise the largest area of ice outside the polar regions and nearly a sixth of the world's total.
西藏地區有3萬5千個以上的冰川覆蓋了超過10萬平方千米的土地,組成了除去極地之外的最大的冰區,接近世界冰區總面積的六分之一。
These glaciers are the source of most of the water in the region. And the Tibetan plateau is studded with glacial lakes. At over 4,500 metres up, Lake Manasarovar in the far west of Tibet is the highest freshwater lake in the world.
冰川是這個地區大部分水流的源頭。青藏高原上鑲嵌著眾多冰冷的湖泊。坐落在西藏遙遠西部海拔4500米處的瑪旁雍錯湖,是世界上海拔最高的淡水湖。