Jianglangshan or Mount Jianglang () is a

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Jiangshan Jiangshan () is a county-level city located in Quzhou prefecture-level city, in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, China, bordering Jiangxi province to the west. Located about 250 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou, the provincial capital, it is ...

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by ...

, China. Three peaks from north to south make its recognizable "river-shaped" arrangement, as follows: Lang Feng, Ya Feng and Ling Feng. Lang Feng has elevation of . The mountain exhibits Danxia landform, and was inscribed onto the

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in August 2010 as part of

China Danxia The Danxia landform () refers to various landscapes found in southeast, southwest and northwest China that "consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs". It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China. Danxia landform ...

. In September 2013, Mount Jianglang was the scene for a

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by Jeb Corliss where he flew between two of the peaks in a

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, starting the jump from a helicopter. Jiangshan Jianglangshan 2012

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Danxia landform Mountains of Zhejiang Jiangshan {{Zhejiang-geo-stub