Talk:Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon

Deepest Gorge?
In a BBC documentary on Tibet, I seem to remember them stating that this was, at 3 times the depth of the Grand Canyon, the deepest gorge in the world. If this is true, it should really be mentioned in the article. --Storkk (talk) 13:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you have a valid reference for this? If so, then we could use it. – Mattisse  (Talk) 13:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You have one here: http://outside.away.com/outside/system/pressroom/tsangpo_press_release.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.248.216.6 (talk) 16:37, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Also see Kali Gandaki Gorge. LADave (talk) 20:38, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


 * This is really confusing the article for Cotahuasi Canyon claims this is the deepest in the world also, and both canyons appear to have sources to back this claim. How can there be more than "one" deepest canyon in the world? Nzoomed (talk) 07:47, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Longest Gorge?
According to the article: "The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon ...... is regarded by some as the deepest canyon in the world,and is slightly longer than the Grand Canyon, making it one of the world's largest.[1].... ....The canyon has a length of about 150 miles as the gorge bends around Mount Namcha Barwa  (7756 m) and cuts its way through the eastern Himalayan range.

However, according to the article on the Grand Canyon in Wikipedia "The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km) (6000 feet)."

Please could someone verify this discrepency? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Although (talk • contribs) 09:53, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The first reference says "The actual length of the canyon is 504.6 kilometers", which is longer than the Grand Canyon. I'll add a bit of text to make that clearer. 71.197.166.72 (talk) 05:24, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

This article talk has been given the wrong name - redirected without consensus
This article has been moved from Talk:Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon. Please discuss or move back. Else rewrite the article to match the new name you have given it. Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 20:37, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Zangbo/Tsangpo = "purifier"?
The Tsangpo article says it means a river originating in "Tsang", i.e. Tibet west of Lhasa. The article lists other rivers using this suffix. LADave (talk) 20:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

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References in media
The section References in media contains the following statement:

“It is a main part of the first episode in the 1984 documentary series "The Living Planet" with David Attenborough[22]”

This is incorrect. The gorge that features in the first episode of The Living Planet is that of   the Kali Gandaki in western Nepal; which is described as “the deepest gorge in the world”. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qnrbn Namewithoutnumber (talk) 17:00, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅. Deleted it. Thanks! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 20:05, 19 February 2023 (UTC)