Tingri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tǐngʹgrē
Etymology: From Tibetan དིང་རི་ (ding ri).
Senses: examples: text: A number of gigantic palaeo-vertebrate fossils dating back 150 to 200 million years have been excavated in Tingri county in Tibet by the scientists with the Chinese Mount Shisha Pangma Mountain-climbing Expedition.[...]
These fossils were located on the slopes of Suje Hill in Tingri county 4,400 metres above sea level.
ref: 1964 July, “Rare Fossils”, in Eastern Horizon, volume III, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68:
text: In Tingri county six out of the nine state-run enterprises (including collectives, which are quasi state enterprises) were without a bookkeeper. The county's truck team had not even kept accounts for the past few years.
ref: 1991, The Poverty of Plenty, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
text: At a reception counter a plump woman sat on a stool, her head cradled on her folded arms, fast asleep. Beside her on the counter were racks of faded brochures in half a dozen languages about the symptoms and treatment of altitude sickness. Behind her were wooden shelves with more than a score of small oxygen bottles fitted with breathing masks, under a sign that proclaimed the bottles to be the property of Tingri County.
ref: 2009, Eliot Pattison, “Chapter Seven”, in The Lord of Death, New York: Soho Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
examples: text: As we approached Tingri, the valley widened out and bent round to the South. Tingri itself was situated on the side of a small hill in the middle of a great plain, from which, looking to the South, was visible the wonderful chain of snowy peaks, many of them over 25,000 feet in height, which extends Westwards from Mount Everest. We crossed the Ra-chu—a tributary of the Bhong-chu, partly by bridges and partly by fords ; it was split up into a number of small and very muddy channels that took their rise from the Kyetrak Glacier. Tingri was to be our first base for reconnoitring^([sic – meaning reconnoitering]) the Northern and North-western approaches to Mount Everest.
ref: 1922, C. K. Howard-Bury, “From Khamba Dzong through Unknown Country to Tingri”, in Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 70:
text: Tingri lies at the edge of a vast plain. There are great views of the Himalayan giants to the south, assuming there's no cloud cover. Everest, or the uppermost part of it, is visible to the far left, but from this distance it doesn't look like a mammoth. However, Cho Oyu, straight ahead, looks stunning. It's worth taking a short hike to the south of Tingri for better views; another viewpoint is from the top of the hill above the village, where there are some old fort ruins.
ref: 2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:
text: From there they would literally walk off the map, following a route that in seven days promised to reach Tingri Dzong, the Tibetan military garrison and trading depot that had long been anticipated as the base for the initial explorations of the northern approaches to the mountain.
ref: 2011, Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:
text: Climbers say that China seems committed to avoiding the mistakes made by the Nepal government by issuing too many permits and increasing traffic. According to reports, China issued permits to only 22 Chinese nationals this year, out of the total 180 permits issued, in a bid to control traffic. The Chinese are also trying to boost their domestic tourism with a new mountaineering center in Tingri.
ref: 2018 May 16, Pradeep Bashyal, Annie Gowen, “Climate change, crowding imperil iconic route to top of Mount Everest”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 17 May 2018:
glosses: A town in Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Dingri
word: Ting-jih