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Courier braves harsh conditions to deliver parcels

China Daily | Updated: 2019-03-20 07:17

High altitude, biting cold make it one of the most hostile transport routes on earth

Starting from the city of Golmud in northwestern China's Qinghai province, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway winds south through the mighty Kunlun Mountains and beside the Chumar and Tuotuo rivers.

Every week, Ge Jun, a courier for State-owned China Post's Golmud branch, drives a green van carrying parcels along the route between Golmud and the town of Dangla, also in Qinghai, The delivery route, launched in 2009, crosses a vast landscape of ice, snow, mountains and rivers in an area with an average altitude of 4,500 meters.

Courier braves harsh conditions to deliver parcels

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