Meanings
- A mountain in Garzê, Sichuan, China.
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.
1993 November 10, “Terris Moore, Educator And an Adventurer, 85”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Obituaries1 more example
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.
1993 [1981 January], David Roberts, “Pioneers of Mountain Exploration: The Harvard Five”, in Jonathan Waterman, editor, Cloud Dancers: Portraits of North American Mountaineers, 1st edition, AAC Press, sourced from "Five Who Made It To The Top", Harvard Magazine, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23
Origin
- Tibetanམི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ
- EnglishMinya Konka
Borrowed from Tibetan མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ (mi nyag gangs dkar ri bo).
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Chinese Mandarin 貢嘎山 /贡嘎山
- 貢嘎山 /贡嘎山 (Gònggá Shān)mountain
Cite this entry
Minya Konka. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Minya%20Konka
“Minya Konka.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Minya%20Konka. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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