Khamber Jong

Gamba (岗 巴 镇) is a large municipality in the district Gamba of the district of Shigatse in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. A large village Gamba is the capital and seat of the district government of Gamba. It is located near the border with Sikkim. The place is known for the eponymous, historically important fortress under names such as Kampa Dzong, Khamber Jong, Khampa Dzong, which now exists only as a ruin.

Historical significance of the fort

1903 came the British Major Francis Younghusband with 500 soldiers for five months to Tibet in the fortress Kampa Dzong. The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon ordered him here to negotiate with Tibet over trade relations. Background was the concern of the British against growing Russian influence in Central Asia ( The Great Game ).

The Tibetan government ignored, however, the invitation of the British. Since the Dalai Lama did not give the British pulled Younghusbands Expeditionskorp 1904 to Lhasa, which he on August 3, 1904 bloodily conquered (UK Tibet campaign ). There, the Tibetans a commercial treaty, the British suzerainty over Sikkim and a British base in Lhasa was imposed on September 7, 1904.

Furthermore, Gamba was supposed to be the birthplace of traditional Tibetan Tepppichknüpfens.

Gamba was also the starting point for the British Mount Everest Expedition in 1922.