Perched at 3,600 meters on the Wunongding Viewing Platform east of the Meri Snow Mountain, the Poodom Deqin Meri hotel faces the sacred Thirteen Peaks of Meri, where a hundred-mile tapestry of snow-capped summits unfolds across the horizon. Framed by the Baima Snow Mountain at its back, it is cradled between two towering alpine ranges. To one side, a sheer valley plunges hundreds of meters down, nearly vertical, toward Deqin County.