Kangchenjunga (8,586m) is the third-highest mountain in the world. Located on the border between Nepal and India, the name means "the five treasures of the great snows," and it has several subpeaks.

On Kangchenjunga in 2025, more than half of the permits (15 of 26) went to women, whose presence on the 8,000'ers has vastly increased. However, on Makalu this year, there are 43 men and 11 women.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a 'red' alert for extremely heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand today.

Discover the breathtaking beauty and spiritual richness of the Indian Himalayas. From the remote town of Tawang in Arunachal ...

The Kangchenjunga region is where modern tourism first started in Nepal. As early as the mid-1800s, the region below the world's third-highest mountain had started seeing foreign expeditions. The ...

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Five mountaineers have lost their loves on Kangchenjunga in the Himalaya: the Hungarians Zsolt Eross and Péter Kiss, Park Nam Su from Korea and two Sherpa, Phurba Sherpa and Bibach Sherpa. Dramatic ...

Kangchenjunga is more than just a mountain, or merely the third highest mountain in the world. It is an 8,000m peak that holds great religious significance among the region’s animist and ...

Kangchenjunga 8,586m (28,169ft) is the world's third highest mountain near the borders between Nepal, India and China. A rescue helicopter flown to the area to locate the three climbers on ...

Our first view of Kangchenjunga through the cockpit of the Twin Otter was sobering. No pictures could have prepared us for the view. At 8,586 metres, the world’s third-highest mountain dominated ...

Satellite imagery is useful, but involving local people in research can often help fill gaps in research of glacial floods. Article by Alton Byers in the Nepali Times shares some of the detailed ...