Mana Pass

Mana Pass (Hindi: माणा दर्रा, romanized: Māṇā Darrā; Chinese: 玛那山口) or Chongnyi La (Hindi: चोंगनी ला‌; Chinese: 仲尼拉山口) is one of the highest vehicle-accessible passes in the world, containing a road constructed in the 2005-2010 period for the Indian military by the Border Roads Organisation and visible on 2011 imagery on visual globe systems such as Google Earth. The well-graded gravel-dirt road is higher on the Indian side than the new road on the Tibetan side, and rises to 5,610 metres (18,406 ft) on the Indian side of the border, 250 m west of the low point of the 5,632 metres (18,478 ft) Mana Pass SRTM. The pass is named as Mana which is derived from "Manibhadra Ashram", the ancient name of the town of Mana which is located near the 6,561 metres (21,526 ft) high Manaswini Peak of the Himalayan range. "Manibhadra Ashram" is the birthplace of Devi Manaswini, sister of Devi Mansa & daughter of Lord Shiva. The female disciple of Tibetan Buddhist Guru Gang Rinpoche Lama, Fu Chongnyi, who later went on to become Empress Zhong(posthumously known as Empress Guang Mu) of China was born in Mana Village. Hence Mana Pass is also known as Chongnyi La in Chinese.