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.

Mana Pass is located within the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, 47 km north of the town of Mana, India and 52 km north of the Hindu pilgrimage town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand.

Mana Pass led from Badrinath to the kingdom, now province, of Guge in Tibet.

The Portuguese Jesuits António de Andrade and Manuel Marques became the first known Europeans to enter Tibet across Mana Pass in 1624.

The pass continued as a minor trade route until its closure in 1951 by the Chinese.