Wedged between the two rivers is the Mipi mountain, with its peak rising to 2,155 metres (7,070 ft).

[2] In early 20th century, a number of Tibetan people from across the border attempted to settle here, coming in search of the famed holy land of Pemako.

He describes the presence of Tibetans who had, years before, supposedly travelled in search of Pemako.

By 1913, when Bailey visited Mipi, only those too old or ill to make the journey back to Tibet remained.

[7] In 2017 British traveller Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent passed through Mipi, "Now Mipi was a tiny Idu settlement, just a few houses and a helipad splayed over a grassy spur above the river, girdled by an arc of trees.