| YELLOW RIVER SOURCE In exploring the great rivers of Asia, CERS Founder and President Wong How Man and his team have always aimed for the “Triple Crown”: finding the source of the Yangtze, the Mekong and the Yellow Rivers. At 12:15 on June 29, 2008, the 18-member CERS team has finally succeeded in archiving this ultimate goal, marking the scientific source of Yellow River at an elevation of 4,878 meters with coordinates of 34˚29’31.1”N 96˚20’24.6”E. |
YELLOW RIVER - EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCE
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| Qinghai, China, July 2008 The eighteen member CERS team reaches the spring of the Yellow River and marks its source. (shortened version for online use) |
DISCOVERY: A NEW YELLOW RIVER SOURCE
Wong How Man
Xining, Qinghai - July 3, 2008
The famous 8th Century Tang Dynasty poets Li Bai and Wang Zhihuan both used their poems to praise the Yellow River. Li wrote, “The Yellow River water comes from the sky” or heaven, while Wang described it similarly, “Yellow River far and high among the white clouds.”
In my experience, though, the Yellow River came from right below my feet. I was standing above its source, at the ridge and watershed between the two great rivers of China, the Yellow and the Yangtze. It was not at all “yellow,” either, but pure and clear.