Qinghai Hoh Xil
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- November–March
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Nothing about Hoh Xil is gentle: this expanse of alpine mountains and steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lies above 4,500 metres, where average temperatures stay below zero all year. Life adapted anyway — over a third of its plant species and every one of its herbivorous mammals exist nowhere off the plateau, and the property secures the full migration route of the endangered Tibetan antelope. UNESCO inscribed Qinghai Hoh Xil in 2017.
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