Khamber Jong

Khamber Jong is a Tibetan hamlet north of Sikkim. In June 1903, Colonel Francis Younghusband, serving as British commissioner to Tibet, led a diplomatic mission having five officers and 500 troops through Nathu La to Khamber Jong. The objective of the mission was to meet Chinese and Tibetan representatives and discuss mutual non-aggression and trade agreements. After kept waiting for five months before the Chinese and Tibetan representatives arrived, the mission was recalled.