Every summer, thousands of ordinary Chinese — office workers, retirees, students, shop owners — walk a 50-kilometer circuit over five mountain peaks in Shanxi Province. Here's ...

It's 11:40 p.m. at the Red Gate, and a thousand people are walking into the dark. What a night climb up Mount Tai actually feels like ...

At 1,600 metres on Sanqingshan in Jiangxi, the path bolted to a vertical granite cliff is flat, wide and full of grandmothers with thermoses. That gap ...

At 11 p.m., thousands of hikers line up at the foot of Mount Tai in Tai'an. They climb more than 6,000 stone steps in the dark, ...