Yu Shan

The island is also in the earthquake and typhoon belts and violent rains, floods, winds and tremors are common. The highest point on the island is Yu Shan, 13,100 feet above sea level. Most of the country is flat, however.

1972, John Coyne, Tom Hebert, This Way Out: A Guide to Alternatives to Traditional College Education in the United States, Europe and the Third World, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 466

Yu Shan or Jade Mountain, 3997 meters, is the highest mountain in Taiwan and all of east Asia. It is built of metamorphic rock, as are all the mountains in Taiwan. Getting to Yu Shan is an adventure in travel. There’s only one way to the mountain and that’s from Chaiyi.

1981 April, Michael R. Kelsey, “Asia”, in Climbers and Hikers Guide to the World's Mountains (Including 318 Maps), 1st edition, Springville, Utah: Kelsey Publishing Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 258

Edwin V. Gatia of the Philippine Mountaineering Society visited Taiwan recently and scaled Mt. Yu Shan, which is 3,997 meters high and reputedly the highest mountain in northeast Asia.

1983 December 18, “Friends in the Philippines”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3