Mount Xuebaoding

Location in China

LocationSongpan County, Sichuan, ChinaParent rangeMin MountainsClimbingFirst ascent1986 by a Japanese teamEasiest routesnow/ice/glacier climb

Mount Xuebaoding（Chinese: 雪宝顶; lit. 'Snowy Treasure Peak'; Standard Tibetan: Shar Dung Ri) is a mountain near the easternmost edge of the Tibetan Plateau in China. With an elevation of 5,588 metres (18,333 ft) it is the highest peak of the Min Mountains and is Earth's most easterly peak over 5,500 metres (18,000 ft). It is located in Songpan County of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

Xuebaoding was first climbed in 1986 by a joint Chinese-Japanese expedition.^[2]

The LuoTuoBei, or Camel's back

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "China III - Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
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Kinichi Yamamori (2001). "Twenty Years of Mountaineering in China". Himalayan Journal. No. 57. The Himalayan Club. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022.
- See also Eketoft, Linda (2013). "Xiao Xuebaoding (5,440m, Chinese map; 5,443m, GPS), northeast ridge". American Alpine Club Journal. Vol. 2013. pp. 353–354. See: Editor's note.