Crossing the grasslands in Northern Sichuan - actually a very dangererous area of marshes - took the Communists a week in August 1935. It is said that this stage of the Long March cost most lives, from exhaustion and malnutrition or by drowning.
The location we show here is very approximate.
Nr. 6 of the poster set An arduous journey.
This is a print from the tenth impression (January 1965).