Yulong Snow Mountain is located in the northern part of Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. It belongs to the Hengduan Mountains and is the southernmost point of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and the lowest latitude modern marine glacier area in the Eurasian continent. There are 19 modern glaciers distributed in the region, among which the largest glacier is Baishui No.1 Glacier located on the east slope of the main peak of Yulong Snow Mountain, with a length of 2.7 kilometers, an area of 1.52 square kilometers, and a snow line height ranging from 4800 to 5000 meters. It belongs to the monsoon ocean type glacier. Studies have shown that due to the impact of global warming, the Baishui No.1 Glacier has been shrinking at a rate of approximately 27 meters per year over the past 10 years, making it one of the fastest melting glaciers in the world.
