Today's report from Chungking of the aerial discovery of a mountain in Sikang (Sikong) Province, West China, believed to be higher than Mount Everest comes with especial interest to the writer, who happened to be a member of that American scientific expedition which in 1932 made a year-long exploration of that region, with official Chinese Government permission, and concluded by climbing and surveying what is believed to be the highest mountain peak of Sikang Province.
(1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.
1950 December 12 [1950 December 11], “REDS TAKE OVER SIKANG; Name Government for Reg Once Held Part of Tibet”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 January 2024, page 14[5]:
The Chinese Communist Government has appointed officials for a new "autonomous peoples government" in Western Sikang Province,[…]
1972, G. Kenneth Whitehead, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.
Where five channels in the Northwest Passage were known, Ericsson opened a sixth. He found a peak in Sikang Province of western China, in the Amne Machin Range, which was almost a thousand feet higher than Everest, but he lost his instruments and his companions and Mount Everest remained on the books the highest mountain on the planet.
