Dongkha La

The Dongkha la or Donkia Pass(Chinese: 东卡拉山口)^[1] (el. 18,156.2 ft or 5,534.0 m)^[2][3][4] is a high mountain pass in the Himalaya connecting Sikkim in India with Tibet.

Painting by J D Hooker (1854)

Dongkha la
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Elevation	18,156.2 ft (5,534 m)
Location	Sikkim, India
Range	Himalaya
Coordinates	27°59′15″N 88°46′02″E

Located in North Sikkim, the pass offers a view of the Tibetan Plateau. The nearby Tso Lhamo Lake^[1] 6.5 km (4.0 mi) is long and 2.5 km (1.6 mi) wide,^[5] and is the source of the Teesta River. Gurudongmar Lake, some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to west-northwest, also feeds the Teesta.

The first observer to record the pass in western literature was botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, who crossed the pass on 7 September 1849.

Dongkha La
Traditional Chinese	東卡拉山口
Simplified Chinese	东卡拉山口
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin dònggālā shānkǒu