Gongga Mountain
Gongga Mountain is the tallest mountain in Sichuan Province and the third highest peak in the world outside the Himalayan range. Called Minya Konka in Tibetan, it towers at over 7,500 meters (23,000 feet). When Austro-American explorer, anthropologist, and botanist Joseph Rock first documented the mountain in the 1920s he claimed that the mountain measured more than 9,000 meters (29,000 feet). He excitedly wired the National Georgraphic Society of the news, but his calculations were quickly refuted. The mountain can be visited from nearby Kangding, the former capital of the Tibetan Kham kingdom. Its intimidating peak has only been reached twice.
Visit Gongga Mountain on an Overland China Journey:
Gongga Mountain: King of Kham
