Midui glacier is geographically located between Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and Boshula Ridge in southeastern Tibet. [Photo/China Tibet Online]

Wangchuk from Chamdo now works for a travel agency in Ningchi, with an attractive online nickname called "glacier boy".

The name comes from his countless visits to the Maintoh glacier rated as the most beautiful glacier by China's National Geographic Magazine.

In the past two years, Wangchuk has guided a good number of visitors from different provinces and countries to the glacier.

"I like my job. I like to make friends with different people," said Wangchuk, one of the many modern young Tibetans who choose to work in another prefecture far from their hometown.

Midui glacier or called Maintoh Kyarom is about 100 kilometers away from the center of Bome County, right seated above the Maintoh village.

Wangchuk introduced that the local people are getting richer while pointing at the beautiful village houses casually scattered at the foot of mountains.

The villagers at Maintoh now make a well-off living by planning barley and developing tourism service, i.e. renting horses to tourists, opening family hotels and operating ethnic style restaurants.

The young guide tells that nowadays many tourists come all the way to see Midui glacier but they have to go across brooks and over lower hills at first. Worried about their physical status, some tourists would rent horses from local household at 80-120 yuan for a return.

Generally, most local households have at least two houses. The government supported villagers to build new houses and some old house have been turned into storages, Wangchuk said.

Midui glaciers are formed within the largest distribution area of monsoon maritime glacier, right between Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains and Boshula Ridge in southeastern Tibet.