to the Mountains!

If anyone has read 'Wild Swans' by Yung Chang, we're heading to her hometown of Chengdu. It was a stronghold of various dynastic leaders, a base for the Kuomintang and a centre for the Communist revolt.
I'm interested in the mountainous areas around Sichuan province though. We intend to climb Emei Shan, a sacred, monastaried, jagged range which will be starting to ice over. A good training session for the Tibetan scapes.