Kinthup
Indian explorer (1800s) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 a previously unknown area of Tibet.[1]
Laurence Waddell, who met Kinthup in 1892, described him as follows:[2]
[Kinthup] is a thick-set active man of medium height and middle age, with a look of dogged determination in his rugged, weather-beaten features ... His complexion is no darker brown than a swarthy Italian. His face is hairless save for one or two straggling bristles on his upper lip ... His deep-chested voice I have often heard calling clearly from a hill-top some miles away.