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Kangding & Luding counties, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province (Daxue Shan range, eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau) · China
Mount Gongga (Minya Konka)
Mount Gongga, also known by its Tibetan name Minya Konka, is the highest peak in Sichuan Province and the easternmost 7,000-meter mountain on Earth, rising in a single dramatic sweep of roughly 6,400 meters above the Dadu River valley below. Carved from granodiorite by five major glaciers — including the 14.2 km Hailuogou Glacier, home to China's largest icefall — the mountain presents four narrow, steep ridges flanked by cliffs of 60 to 70 degrees around its cone-shaped summit. First climbed in 1932 by Americans Terris Moore and Richard Burdsall via the Northwest Ridge, Gongga has since acquired a reputation as one of the deadliest mountains in the world relative to attempts, with a death rate reported to exceed that of Everest and every 8,000-meter peak. As of a September 2017 tally, only 32 successful summits had been recorded against 21 deaths, including a 1957 Chinese ascent that killed four climbers and a catastrophic 1981 Japanese attempt that killed eight. The mountain is sacred to the local Minyag Tibetan population, and the mid-13th-century Gongga Monastery near its base still serves as an expedition basecamp; the surrounding area has been protected as a national nature reserve since 1997.
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