Kunes River, Western Xinjiang, 2004

The Kunes flows west along the south side of a major mountain range west of Urumqi, Xinjiang.

According to Zhang Jiewe, who was a member of the Warren Yangzte expedition in 1986 and has been helping foreigners organize river and mountaineering expeditions in western China since then, a team of Chinese rafters attempted to run the Kunes and seven of them drowned.

The photo above may not be from the stretch where the disaster occurred. A map and other details are not available.