Drivers walk around to keep themselves warm as their trucks are stranded on a highway in Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province in heavy snow and freezing temperature December 4, 2005. About 1,000 vehicles were stranded as their engines failed in a temperature 21 degrees below zero.  Traffic police had to close the highway and attempted to rescue the stranded passengers, drivers and vehicles.

An icicle extends to the road from a truck stranded on a highway in Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province in heavy snow and freezing temperature December 4, 2005.

Driver heats the oil tank of his truck with fire.

A driver creeps under his truck to heat the engine with fire.

Passengers choose to walk out of the mountain as vehicles are stranded on a highway in Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province in heavy snow and freezing temperature December 4, 2005.

(People's Daily December 6, 2005)