The Yarlung Tsangpo is the Brahmaputra (Kinthup)
El Yarlung Tsangpo es el Brahmaputra (Kinthup)
- Date
- 1880-1884 (confirmado en 1913-1925) · confidence medium
- Place
- Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, Tibet, China
- Credited to
- Kinthup, Sikkimese pundit; confirmed by Bailey and Kingdon-Ward
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The pundit Kinthup travelled the unknown stretch of the Tsangpo in the eastern Himalaya and threw marked logs to prove its link to the Siang and the Brahmaputra. His report was not believed and the link was confirmed nearly forty years later.
Kinthup was sold into slavery, escaped, and could not send the warning about the logs in time; his account was accepted after 1913 (Bailey and Morshead) and Kingdon-Ward's work in 1924-25. The link had been conjectured since the 18th century (Rennell).
What it led to
- solution of the riddle of the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra link
- exploration of the great canyon and the Rainbow Falls in 1924