Travel Destinations - China - Gonggashan

Gonggashan: Khamping Out

The high hills of western Sichuan Province remain relatively unexplored except by the Khampa nomads. Keith Andony buys a pair of strong boots and joins a research trip to the area's Mount Gongga.

Would you be interested in joining a survey trek to Gongga?

"My first reaction when I heard the offer was, "Where?! It sounds like a place named by club wielding Cro-Magnon."

Wary of being packed off to a prehistoric theme park, I put the word out to my friends who [ read more ]