17.-19.: We climbed the second of the mountains with a height of 5454m. At night in the tents we suddenly awoke as something moved the tent a little. We were in the middle of a herd of cows and they were stamping around outside and made really frightening noises as they got nervous and stamped around.
On the 20th. we went back to Chengdu on a road that several people had told us is impassible and went on to Xi’an on a hardsleeper train at the night from the 21st. to the 22nd.