Gongga Shan
| Mount Gongga | |
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Minya Konka Northwest Ridge
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 7,556 m (24,790 ft) Ranked 41st |
| Prominence | 3,642 m (11,949 ft) Ranked 47th |
| Isolation | 661 kilometres (411 mi) |
| Listing | Ultra |
| Coordinates | 29°35′45″N 101°52′45″E / 29.59583°N 101.87917°ECoordinates: 29°35′45″N 101°52′45″E / 29.59583°N 101.87917°E |
| Geography | |
 Mount Gongga
Location in Sichuan
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| Location | Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China |
| Parent range | Daxue Shan (大雪山) |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | October 28, 1932 by Terris Moore, Richard Burdsall |
| Easiest route | Northwest Ridge |
Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggá Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo), is the highest mountain in Sichuan province, China. It is also known to locals as "The King of Sichuan Mountains". Situated in the Daxue Shan mountain range, between Dadu River and Yalong River, part of the Hengduan mountainous region, Mount Gongga is the easternmost 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) peak in the world and the third highest peak outside of the Himalaya/Karakoram, after Tirich Mir and Kongur Tagh.
The peak has large vertical relief over the deep nearby gorges.
Graf Béla Széchenyi (from Ed. Ellinger in Österreichs Illustrierter Zeitung, 1900)
Title page of an expedition report from a member of Graf Béla Széchenyi's expedition
Joseph Rock
According to an early remote measurement of the mountain, then called Bokunka, was performed by the expedition of Graf Béla Széchenyi 1877-80. They came to a height of 7600 meter. 45 years later the mountain, this time called Gang ka, was sketched by missionary J. H. Edgar, again from remote.
In 1930 ( puts the date at 1929) the explorer Joseph Rock, making an attempt to measure its altitude, mis-calculated its height as 30,250 ft (9,220 m) and cabled the National Geographic Society to announce Minya Konka as the highest mountain in the world. This measurement was viewed with suspicion from the start, and the Society's decision to check Rock's calculations before publication was well-founded. Following discussions with the Society, Rock reduced the claim to 7,803 m (25,600 ft) in his formal publication. In 1930 Swiss geographer Eduard Imhof measured 7,590 m (24,900 ft).
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