Kinthup, a Lepcha man from Sikkim, was an explorer in the area of Tibet in the 1880s. He is best known for his impressive devotion to duty in surveying...

(holy man). These native surveyors are called pundits. One such pundit, Kinthup, was the first person to discover that the Tsangpo River was a tributary...

"pundits" to do the footwork. Kinthup from Sikkim entered the gorge near Gyala, but it proved to be impenetrable. In 1880 Kinthup was sent back to test the...

people of the Pemako country near the great elbow of the Tsangpo, where Kinthup also met them and found them the same as Nain Singh Baker 2004, p. 465...

Kinthup, a noted Lepcha Pundit, was a Buddhist pilgrim when he surveyed Nepal in the 1870s (photograph 1914)....

Irrawaddy or Brahmaputra rivers all of which have headwaters this region. Kinthup, a Lepcha man from Sikkim employed as a pundit, had provided some evidence...

sent Nem Singh (G.M.N. on official records) and another survey assistant Kinthup to cut down and float marked logs into the river. They reached up to a...

of this size. It seemed there must be a massive waterfall and, indeed, Kinthup had reported one 150 feet (46 m) high. In 1913 Frederick Bailey, an intelligence...

falls on the Yarlung Tsangpo, which had been reported by the Indian pundit Kinthup. In 1913 he made an unauthorised exploration to the Tsangpo Gorges with...