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.

A Buddhist "purification ritual" will be held on June 15 to seek the forgiveness of the locals' guardian deity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Good news from Kangchenjunga: Sherpas have helped ailing British climber and polar explorer Adrian Hayes back to Camp 2. He suffered altitude sickness near Camp 4 and has been stranded there since ...

Margareta Morin of France died on Kangchenjunga yesterday. At 63, this was her first 8,000'er. Meanwhile, British climber Adrian Hayes is seriously sick in Camp 4, and bad weather has thwarted ...

The last team of the season summited Kangchenjunga this morning. Nima Rinji Sherpa became the youngest Kangchenjunga summiter ever and equaled fellow teen Alasdair McKenzie’s list of 13 8,000m ...

Kangchenjunga (8,586m) is not a peak as much as it is a mountain range with 16 peaks above 7,000m on the border between India and Nepal -- the word itself means ‘five treasures of the snows’ in ...

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 ...

Back in the 19th century Kangchenjunga was considered to be the highest mountain in the world. Then the 1849 Great Trigonometrical Survey of India discovered Peak XV (then the name for Mount ...

He was ready to lock horns with the “Demon of Kangchenjunga”. Almost 120 years on, I’m closing in on the summit of Dzongri Top, a 4,250m peak offering a good look at the giant mountain ridge ...

MR. DOUGLAS W. FRESHFIELD publishes, in the April number of the Geographical Journal an account of his expedition to Kangchenjunga during the autumn of 1899. The Kangchenjunga group is cut off ...

Kangchenjunga in 1899 was a complicated destination at the time. The British were in dispute with Tibet about what they perceived as undue Russian influence in Lhasa and were determined to force ...

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.