Even school geography’ is subject to the corrections entailed by modern discoveries. A missionary recently in Auckland, after spending many years on the Chinese borders of mysterious Tibet, assured an Auckland Star reporter that although Mount Everest has been long recognised as the highest mountain in the world, it is not so. He said that overlooking the region in which he lived among the Tibetans is “ Gong-ga,” which towers 30,000 ft, just 998 feet higher than Everest.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3992, 16 September 1930, Page 46
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