Ain't gonna happen folks. This one is so remote that I imagine less than 100 people will visit the falls in the next 100 years. Those of you interested in the location at least, the falls can be found on a crook in the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River, just north of the Northeastern tip of India around 95E, 28N. |
The Tsangpo Gorge was one of the last great unexplored areas on earth. Located in the heart of the Himalayas, the gorge streches for 150 miles, at one point straddled by two of earth's tallest mountains - Gyala Perli (23,901 feet) and Namcha Barwa (25,446 feet), just 13 miles apart - with the river over 15,000 feet below. There had long been legends of a waterfall in the gorge on the magnitude of Niagara, but it wasn't until 1998 that anything was confirmed. A group of kayakers traveled down the Yarlung Tsangpo at river level, noting three major waterfalls. Hidden Falls is the largest, at around 100 feet tall. Before this expedition, it is thought that no westerner had ever seen the falls. Immediately upstream from Hidden Falls is Rainbow Falls, and several miles further upstream lies Kintup Falls. Very very little information exists on any of these descents, but becauset the kayakers had to portage the waterfalls, they got a good feel of how large the river is. Needless to say, this turned out to be one of the more massive waterfalls on earth. The Visual Magnitude and BWR Ratings we've calculated are extremely rough - based largely on an aerial photograph of the gorge found in the links section below (second link). |
