Joseph Rock
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Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American botanist, explorer, geographer, linguist, ethnographer and photographer.
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Photo from Rock's book The ornamental trees of Hawaii (1917)
Mount Gongga
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Mount Gongga, also known as Minya Konka and nicknamed "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the highest mountain in Sichuan province, China. It has an elevation of 7,509 m above sea level, as surveyed b
Joseph Rock
…Rock found sponsorship from the National Geographic Society to make a number of trips to southwest Sichuan to explore both the Konkaling range and Minya Konka (Mount Gongga). The latter is among the highest mountains outside of the Himalayas and was particularly difficult of access, not least because of the…
West face of Mount Gongga
The Hailuogou Glacier
Northwest Ridge, the standard route of ascent
Graf Béla Széchenyi (Österreichs Illustrierter Zeitung, 1900)