Tianmen Mountain is a famous mountain located next to Zhangjiajie city in northern Hunan province, People’s Republic of China.

The main peak, about 1,518 meters (4,982 feet) above sea level, is considered “Heaven’s Gate”, as it is the Chinese translation of Thien Mon Cave.

Thien Mon Cave until 263 was still a closed cave, but after the collapse of one side it opened up and today it is actually the tallest natural arch in the world, with exactly 999 steps leading up to it. This impressive location.

Also at the top of the mountain is the great Tianmen Temple, originally built during the Tang Dynasty and today newer structures of the Tang architectural style occupy the area.

To get to it, you can reach it by the world’s longest cable car, which takes about half an hour to reach the top. The adventures don’t stop there, however, and with the Cliff Walk and Glass Walk offering great views of the surrounding park, Chinese authorities have made the place attractive. more attractive to all visitors who want a different perspective. from China.

With so many wonders concentrated in one place, it’s no surprise that Tianmen Mountain is famous around the world, especially when it comes to events like Jeb Corliss’s successful flight on September 25, 2019. 2011, glided through the dome with his outfit. .

In short, a true Chinese monument must be protected from development and must remain so so that every visitor can see a different and inspiring China.

Heavy rain and strong wind will hit south China over the next three days as Typhoon Koinu reaches the coast after killing one and injuring hundreds in Taiwan, where authorities were on Friday flying help to a badly hit island.

Typhoon Koinu, which means “puppy” in Japanese, will bring severe weather to the coasts of Guangdong province and neighbouring, China’s National Meteorological Centre (NMC) said, as it as it issued a yellow alert, the third highest in a four-coloured warning system.

Rainfall in Guangdong could reach more than 300 millimetres, the centre said.

Koinu killed one person and injured almost 400 people in Taiwan, causing some of the most extensive damage on remote Orchid Island off the east coast and home to about 5,000 people, although no one was injured on the island.

More than 70 boats were overturned or sunk in a harbour on the island, two schools were seriously damaged and power was cut.

Government and air force helicopters flew in engineers to restore electricity and telecommunications, though the first boats with supplies are not due to arrive on Orchid Island until early Saturday. Civilian flights remain suspended.

Guangdong province has suspended dozens of ferry routes since late Thursday and the NMC warned tourists to stay away from beach resorts on the last day of a week-long holiday on Friday.

Guangdong has also suspended 83 high-speed trains and closed 29 tourist sites, according to media and the government.

Fujian province also suspended dozens of ferries including services known as the “small three links” to Taiwan’s Kinmen and Matsu islands, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Koinu was travelling around 144 kph (89 mph) off the coast of the city of Shanwei as of 8 a.m. on Friday, said the NMC, slowing down from the 252 kph (156 mph) on Thursday in Taiwan.

It is expected to weaken into a strong tropical storm from late Friday and grow weaker as it heads west along China’s southern coast, it said.

At least 42 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods in the Indian Himalayas this week, government officials said on Friday as rescuers kept searching for almost 150 missing.

The Lhonak Lake in the mountainous northeastern state of Sikkim overflowed on Wednesday after a cloudburst triggered torrential rains and an apparent avalanche, causing major flooding in the Teesta river.

It was one of the worst disasters in the region in more than 50 years and the latest in a series of extreme weather events that have caused widespread damage in South Asia’s Himalayas, blamed by scientists on climate change.

Authorities in Sikkim said the disaster, which came ahead of a popular festive and tourism season in the scenic state, had impacted the lives of 22,000 people.

Scientists and government authorities were working on an early warning system for glacial floods at Lhonak Lake which could have given people more time to evacuate if fully operational, officials involved in the project told Reuters.

Sikkim’s chief secretary Vijay Bhushan Pathak, the most senior bureaucrat, said rescuers had found 20 bodies in the state and 22 in the neighbouring downstream state of West Bengal.

The number of missing had risen to 142, including 15 army personnel, as people stepped up searches as the weather improved on Friday, he said.

Military helicopters made four attempts to evacuate tourists stranded in the higher reaches of the state but did not succeed due to bad weather, Pathak said, adding that they would try again on Saturday.

Bandana Chettri, a top official in the state tourism department, said all tourists, including more than 50 foreigners, were safe.

Earlier on Friday, Tseten Bhutia, a state official, said rescue and relief teams were struggling as areas in north Sikkim had been totally cut off.

About 2,400 people have been evacuated so far and 7,600 people were in relief camps, Bhutia said. Private and government institutions have been closed in the area until Oct. 15.

Photos and videos on social media showed roads and pathways covered with silt and stones, vehicles stuck and small, muddy streams flowing by hillsides.

Military equipment, including firearms and explosives, was washed away in the Teesta river, a defence ministry spokesperson said in a social media post.

The weather department said Sikkim received 101 mm (four inches) of rain in the first five days of October, more than double normal levels, unleashing floods worse than one in October 1968 in which an estimated 1,000 people died.

Heavy rain is forecast in parts of the region on Friday but the intensity of showers is likely to ease, the India Meteorological Department said.

Sikkim, a small Buddhist state of about 650,000 people which is wedged in the mountains between Nepal, Bhutan and China, has been cut off from Siliguri in West Bengal as the main highway, which links it to the rest of the country, had collapsed.

A novel UK satellite has returned its first pictures of heat variations across the surface of the Earth.

HotSat-1 carries the highest resolution commercial thermal sensor in orbit, enabling it to trace hot and cold features as small as 3.5m across.

In the initial imagery, a Chicago train is observed moving through the night and the flame fronts of Canadian wildfires are precisely mapped.

London operator SatVu plans to launch seven additional spacecraft.

This will increase the volume of data it can acquire but also reduce the time between passes over particular locations, meaning changes in a scene can be detected more rapidly.

HotSat-1, with its mid-wave infrared camera, was assembled by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) in Guildford and launched in June on a SpaceX rocket flying out of California.

The spacecraft manufacturer is due to complete its in-orbit testing and commissioning phase in the next week.

“At that point ‘we get the keys’, so to speak, and we’ll then be able to task the satellite ourselves and get the data down for our customers,” Tobias Reinicke, the chief technology officer at SatVu, told BBC News.

They’ll permit urban planners, for example, to see roof tops and walls.

This will enable them to understand the temperature profiles of individual buildings, offices and factories. It’s information that can identify infrastructure that’s wasting energy and is in need of better insulation.