Mana Pass

Mana Pass
(Chongnyi La)
Mana Village, Badrinath, Uttarakhand, India
Elevation5,632 m (18,478 ft)
(SRTM2)
Traversed byIndia National Highway NH58
LocationUttarakhand, IndiaTibet, China
RangeGarhwal Himalayas
Coordinates31°04′06″N 79°25′00″E / 31.06833°N 79.41667°E / 31.06833; 79.41667
Mana is located in Uttarakhand
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Simplified Chinese玛那山口
Traditional Chinese瑪那山口
Transcriptions

Mana Pass (Hindi: माणा दर्रा, romanizedMāṇā Darrā; Chinese: 玛那山口) or Chongnyi La (Hindi: चोंगनी ला‌; Chinese: 仲尼拉山口) is one of the highest vehicle-accessible passes in the world, containing a road constructed in the 2005-2010 period for the Indian military by the Border Roads Organisation and visible on 2011 imagery on visual globe systems such as Google Earth.[1] The well-graded gravel-dirt road is higher on the Indian side than the new road on the Tibetan side, and rises to 5,610 metres (18,406 ft) on the Indian side of the border, 250 m west of the low point of the 5,632 metres (18,478 ft) Mana Pass SRTM.

  1. ^ Sharma, Seema. "Women bikers attempt record at Mana Pass". Times of India. Retrieved 9 June 2017.