Mount Gongga
Sign in to saveAlso known as Minya Konka, Gongga Shan, Mi-nyag, Mt. Gongga
highest mountain in Sichuan, China
Key facts
- Elevation
- 7,509 m (24,636 ft), Ranked 41st
- Prominence
- 3,642 m (11,949 ft), Ranked 47th
- Parent peak
- K2
- Listing
- Ultra
- Location
- Kangding and Luding County , Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , Sichuan , China
- Parent range
- Daxue Shan (大雪山)
- First ascent
- October 28, 1932, by Terris Moore and Richard Burdsall
- Easiest route
- Northwest Ridge
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Elevation
- 7556
- Image
- Minya Konka Northwest Ridge.JPG
- Significant event
- first ascent
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- Commons category
- Minya Konka
- topographic prominence
- 3642
- topographic isolation
- 661
- mountain range
- Daxue Mountains
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggā Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan: མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ་, Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo) and nicknamed "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the highest mountain in Sichuan province, China. It has an elevation of 7,509 m (24,636 ft) above sea level, as surveyed by the Ministry of Natural Resources in November 2023. The name Gongga means "white snow [mountain]" in Tibetan, while Mi'nyag/Minya refers to the cultural region around the mountain. Mount Gongga is the easternmost and most isolated 7,000-metre (23,000 ft) peak in the world. It is situated in the Daxue Shan mountain range, between the Dadu and Yalong rivers, and is part of the Hengduan mountainous region. The peak has large vertical relief over the deep gorges nearby.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Gongga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.