Watch This | 'Silent Hill' in reality: Stories behind mysterious & primitive Ailao Mountains

Recently, the video blogger "Shanqu" who alone into the mountains to collect ore stone material in the network has become popular and also let the Ailao Mountains again into the public eye.

Ailao Mountains means "place of tigers and leopards" in the Yi language, which is not a mountain, but a group of mountains stretching hundreds of kilometers across the boundary between the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau and the Hengduan Mountains.

The prefecture-level cities of Chuxiong, Yuxi, and Pu'er were separated by the Ailao Mountains, which were situated in central Yunnan. Some people called the mountains the "Forest of Death" because of their deep forests, ravines, and erratic weather. According to available data, it is recognized as the world's largest, least damaged, and most intact subtropical highland wet evergreen broadleaf forest habitat at these latitudes.

Most of the deeper, unreachable regions of the Ailao Mountains are made up of virgin forests without adequate roads; these regions are still off-limits to tourists. Altitude sickness and hypothermia can strike visitors to these regions frequently due to harsh weather. Compasses may become worthless in this location due to the abnormal magnetic field, increasing the likelihood of getting lost.

Upon reaching the Ailao Mountains' interior in November 2021, four geological surveyors gave their lives while performing their duties. According to CCTV news, forensic examination and a collaborative on-site investigation revealed that the primary causes of the four personnel's deaths were extreme physical strain and fast temperature decreases brought on by wind gusts.

On Oct. 5, Yunnan Ailao Mountains officials issued a safety tip, "the depths of the Ailao Mountains are dangerous, do not rush to the unknown zone and the undeveloped area."

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