Can Gongga Mountain be climbed?

Gongga Mountain can be climbed, but it is more difficult.

Gongga Mountain has long attracted people's attention. For climbers, Gongga Mountain has unparalleled attraction, so it has won the reputation of "the king of the mountains".

As a high-altitude technical peak, Gongga Mountain is far more difficult than Mount Everest. 1980, it was opened to the outside world by the China government together with seven other peaks, such as Mount Everest, and received foreign mountaineering teams, attracting a large number of world-class mountaineers to climb.

Especially for Japanese climbers, because Gongga Mountain is regarded as the father mountain by the Japanese. However, due to its huge difficulty in climbing, the death rate of Gongga Mountain is as high as 60%, second only to Kawalpo.

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The best season for mountaineering tourism in Gongga Mountain is usually in the alternate period of dry season and rainy season from May to June every year, because the temperature is high but the rainfall is not too much during this period, which is suitable for tourism.

In the dry season, the weather is sunny and milder than other areas at the same latitude. The highest temperature in a year is April and May. Mountaineering activities are mostly selected in the alternate period of dry season and rainy season.

Before World War II, Gongga Mountain was very important in geography. Joseph F. Rock, an American, wrongly measured the elevation of Gongga at 9,500m in 1930, thus claiming it as the highest mountain in the world, attracting many foreign explorers.

193 1 year, the famous Swiss geographer Eduard Imhof accurately measured the height of Gongga Mountain for the first time, and his hand-drawn survey map and sketch of Gongga Mountain also brought the information of Gongga Mountain to Europe and America.