Traditional medicine for sale in the Yangtze's Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Paddling the Class IV rapids through the Yangtze's Great Bend.
The village of Baoshan, 800 feet above the Yangtze.
A mellow section of the river.
A Mountain Travel Sobek guide on the Yangtze.
Locals cook in traditional villages that could be flooded by impending dams.
The Great Bend of the Yangtze is a 300-mile section through rugged mountains and remote villages.
Clients and guides scouting Class V rapids on the Yangtze.
Rafting clients, guides, and local villagers sharing meals on the banks of the river.
The mountains of China's Yunnan Province are a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to 20 endangered animals and 6,000 rare plants.
Mountain Travel Sobek's raft pushes through a rapid on their 128- mile journey around a section of the Yangtze's Great Bend.
The canyon's 12,000-foot walls are twice as high as the Grand Canyon.
The mountains of China's Yunnan Province are a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to 20 endangered animals and 6,000 rare plants.
Thousands of villagers could be displaced by the dam scheduled to be built at the top of Tiger Leaping Gorge.
A local Yunnanese man rows his bamboo boat along the river.
Padding the flat water toward the end of the canyon.
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