Tiger Leaping Gorge (Chinese: »¢ÌøÏ¿; pinyin: H¨³ti¨¤o Xi¨¢) is a canyon on the Yangtze River ¨C locally called the Golden Sands River (½ðɳ½; J¨©nsh
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Tiger Leaping Gorge (Chinese: »¢ÌøÏ¿; pinyin: H¨³ti¨¤o Xi¨¢) is a canyon on the Yangtze River ¨C locally called the Golden Sands River (½ðɳ½; J¨©nsh¨¡ Ji¨¡ng) ¨C located 60 km north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. Tiger Leaping Gorge is a contender for the world's deepest river canyon, depending on the exact definition used.[citation needed] The inhabitants of the gorge are primarily the indigenous Naxi people, who live in a handful of small hamlets. Their primary subsistence comes from grain production and foreign hikers. The gorge is not considered navigable. In the early 1980s, four rafters attempted to go down the gorge and were never seen again. In 1986, the first known successful attempt to sail through the gorge was made by the first expedition to float down the entire length of the Yangtze, starting at the river's high source at the Gelandandon