Mount Gongga

Mount Gongga, otherwise called Minya Konka, is the most elevated mountain in Sichuan territory, China. It is likewise referred to local people as "The King of Sichuan Mountains". Arranged in the Daxue Shan mountain go, between Dadu River and Yalong River, some portion of the Hengduan precipitous district, Mount Gongga is the easternmost 7,000 meters 23,000 ft crest on the planet and the third most astounding top outside the Himalaya/ Karakoram, after Tirich Mir and Kongur Tagh.

The pinnacle has substantial vertical alleviation over the profound close-by chasms. In 1930 puts the date at 1929 the adventurer Joseph Rock, making an endeavor to gauge its elevation, misinterpreted its stature as 30,250 ft 9,220 m and cabled the National Geographic Society to Minya Konka as the most elevated mountain on the planet. This estimation was seen with doubt from the begin, and the Society's choice to check Rock's figurings previously production was all around established. This was an amazing accomplishment at the time, thinking about the stature of the mountain, its remoteness, and the little size of the gathering. This pinnacle was the most astounding summit come to by Americans until 1958 however Americans had at that point move to higher non-summit focuses.