Battle at Great Wall, Laiyuan, Hebei, autumn 1937 (2)

__NOTOC__ Baishi Mountain, also known by its Chinese name Baishishan, is a

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...

in Laiyuan County, Baoding Prefecture,

Hebei Province Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

, China. Its highest peak has an elevation of and its main ridge stretches for over .. Parts of the

Great Wall The Great Wall of China (, literally "ten thousand ''li'' wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic grou ...

snake around its foothills. Baishi Mountain forms the northern end of the Taihang Chain and is located about southwest of

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Background

Its name refers to the white

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making up parts of its

bedrock In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material ( regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet. Definition Bedrock is the solid rock that underlies looser surface material. An exposed portion of be ...

.. The roughly of dolomite making up the top of the mountain was formed about 1 billion to 700

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and was pushed into place by about of newly forming

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies und ...

. created by a magma intrusion at the mountain's base about 140 mya. China's National Tourism Administration established the in 2004. The same area was declared the when it was named a world geological park by

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in September 2006.. The CNTA declared it a AAAAA-level tourist attraction in early 2017.. It is particularly well known for its appearance during overcast days, when the tops of nearby peaks can be seen jutting out from within low-lying clouds and mist. Since September 2014, it has also had China's longest, widest, and highest glass

skywalk A skyway, skybridge, skywalk, or sky walkway is an elevated type of pedway connecting two or more buildings in an urban area, or connecting elevated points within mountainous recreational zones. Urban skyways very often take the form of encl ...

, stretching over a

ravine A ravine is a landform that is narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streambank erosion.spider Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species d ...

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Clubiona baishishan ''Clubiona'' is a genus of sac spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804. Species the genus contains 493 species and seven subspecies. These species and subspecies are found in Oceania, Africa, North America, the Cari ...

'' takes its name from its discovery near the mountain.

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* Laiyuan County'
official map of the Baishi Scenic Area
* Photos of Baishi Mountain from ''China Daily''

at ''Xinhua Net''

at ''Xinhua Net'' {{coord missing, Hebei Mountains of China AAAAA-rated tourist attractions

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