Tingri

Proper noun

Tingri

1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 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.1964 July, “Rare Fossils”, in Eastern Horizon, volume III, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68
2. A town in Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 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...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
   • 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...2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200

   Synonyms:

   Ting-jih