Minya Konka

English Mount Gongga Minya Konka Etymology Borrowed from en bo མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ. Pronunciation mĭnyä′ kônkä′Minya Konka 1210 3 Minya Konka (mĭnyä′ kônkä′), Chinese Kungka Shan (go͝ong′gä′ shän′),Sometimes spelled Minya Gongkar. Proper noun 1 en mountain Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture/Garzê p/Sichuan c/China. en 1993 1981 January David Roberts Pioneers of Mountain Exploration: The Harvard Five w:Jonathan Waterman Cloud Dancers: Portraits of North American Mountaineers https://archive.org/details/clouddancersport0000unse/ 1st American Alpine Club AAC Press "Five Who Made It To The Top", Harvard Magazine 0-930410-54-8 29909567 23 https://archive.org/details/clouddancersport0000unse/page/23/ Among the dozens of brilliant projects they initiated, three stand out today as hallmarks in the history of mountaineering: the first ascent, in 1932, of Minya Konka, the storied Chinese mountain rumored to be higher than Everest; the first ascent, in 1936, of Nanda Devi, in India, which remained for fourteen years thereafter the highest mountain ever climbed; and the gallant attempt on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, in 1938. en November 10, 1993 Terris Moore, Educator And an Adventurer, 85 w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150526090941/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/10/obituaries/terris-moore-educator-and-an-adventurer-85.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/10/obituaries/terris-moore-educator-and-an-adventurer-85.html May 26, 2015 0362-4331 1645522 Obituaries In 1932 he was a member of a party of Americans who climbed the 24,900-foot Minya Konka in China near its border with Tibet. At the time, the group had climbed higher than any Americans on any mountain. Translations mountain Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 貢嘎山 Japanese: ja References