【正文】 froze and some Gatorade that we got at the fancy department store in downtown are plenty of refreshment stands along the way where you can buy bottled water, the Chinese equivalent of Gatorade, and other drinks or snacks at a premium reached the North Peak before 4:00 PM and rested at the room was basic, but fortable and clean water is scarce on the mountain, there were neither showers nor sinks available for that sense the experience felt like camping, but we were sleeping in a big tent!After dinner at the hotel restaurant, we spent some time talking with our were a bit surprised to find that they both think of Japan negatively, but like the seems that Japan39。s WWII behavior in China has not been forgotten, and is emphasized in saw a beautiful sunset and watched the sky bee resplendent with thousands of stars, including the Milky Way was the clearest sky that we have seen in fresh air at Hua Shan is a treat!Our guides had both been planning to get up at 4:00 AM to watch the and I made sleep a did happen to wake up a bit before sunrise(our room faced east)and went outside to watch the sky bee , our guides missed the sunrise because they had stayed up late watching the European soccer championships on the television in their roomThe plan for the day was to climb the other four peaks, but we reserved the right to shorten the first part was a steep climb to Middle the low North Peak, all the others are at roughly 2000 were crowds on the way to Middle Peak – mostly Chinese hikers but we did see a few other wai guo(foreigners)as visited two Taoist temples en route to Middle Peak.()Each one had an altar with incense and offerings of friendly monks invited us to say a prayer or to send blessings to loved accepted their the first temple, she lit incense sticks and knelt on a cushion in front of the altar saying a silent prayer for our safe journey to the various summits of Hua Shan(the prayer was answered)。At the second temple, she knelt on a cushion in front of the altar and sent silent blessings to several friends who are experiencing challenging situations in their lives at each blessing, she leaned forward and the monk struck a Middle Peak, the crowds got much next was East Peak, which had a steep ladder climbing was dubious about this ascent, but realized that the ladder wasn39。t so bad and went for was a good decision because we were then able to do a loop and the trails got almost empty at this skirting the top of a cliff with a steep dropoff on both sides, we had a pleasant walk to South Peak and West was even a small amount of dirt trail!The summit of South Peak was the highest point on Hua Shan, so of course we asked another hiker to take a photo of our guides and views from the tops of each peak were Shan and the surrounding mountains are very rugged and remind us somewhat of hiking in the southwestern United States or the took a route that eventually brought us to the main line returning down from Middle to North were happy to have ascended each of the five peaks(petals)of Flower cable car(the longest in Asia)，it was just 7 minutes down to the park caught a shuttle bus into town, then transferred to a bus for guides told us that we had walked up and down a total of 4000 stairs!We were glad that we did not have this information when we three days after returning home, our sore leg muscles instructed us to take the elevator to our fifth floor apartment rather than climbing the stairs.