The Flying Mountain (German: Der fliegende Berg) is 2006 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr.

Together, they embark on a journey to eastern Tibet to attempt the first climb of the Phur-Ri (The Flying Mountain), a towering peak witnessed by only one Chinese driver.

The action takes place in the years 1990-2000, with good use of the internet, and hides nothing of the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China.

The main, retrospective narrator is Pad, a survivor, returned to Horse Island, to liquidate the farm.

He intertwines what he learned from childhood, adolescence (Captain Daddy), and those three or four months in Tibet, marches, people (clan, monasteries, hermit), objects (balaclava, calabash, prayer flags), myths (Dhjemo (p. 192 or Yeti), the slow separation from his brother, the observation of the sky (diurnal and nocturnal, Scorpion, Orion, Betelgeuse, Regulus, Spica ...), the highest measured point of our life (p. 332).