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.

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Nima Rinji Sherpa became the youngest Kangchenjunga summiter ever and equaled fellow teen Alasdair McKenzie’s list of 13 8,000m summits. McKenzie, 19, summited Cho Oyu yesterday with the ...

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 ...

It is home to the world’s third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga at 8,586m, once thought to be the highest in the world because of its massive summit ridge and visibility from Darjeeling. The region is ...

The climbing history of Kangchenjunga begins with exploration rather than summit bids. In 1899, British mountaineer Douglas Freshfield became the first European to circumnavigate the mountain ...

On 18/05 at 2.30 pm Ferran Latorre from Spain reached the summit of Kangchenjunga. His companions Edurne Pasaban, Juanito Oiarzabal, Asier Izguirre and Alex Chicon summited circa two hours later, at 4 ...

Five climbers—almost half of the 11 who summited this week—died while descending from the top of Kangchenjunga on Monday and Tuesday in a series of separate incidents.

Freshfield's object was to make this high-level tour round Kangchenjunga, passing as near as possible to the great mountain, and, further, to obtain some accurate idea of the glacial features of ...

A video showing a rare view over Mount Everest—the world's tallest mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet—from a plane has gone viral on Instagram. The spectacular sight was shared in a ...