Kangchenjunga: too sacred to climb? Despite anger in Sikkim, it is unlikely Nepal will also ban climbing the world’s third highest mountain ...

KOLKATA: It was in May 1955 that a British mountaineering team successfully climbed Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest mountain at 8,586m, for the first time.

Kangchenjunga was invoked as a witness to the signing of this key treaty. Locals fear angering their guardian deity could cause natural disasters, something the state has often been afflicted with.

Gangtok, The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee on Saturday appealed to the Nepal government and the Nepal Mountaineering Association to immediately halt a planned expedition to Mt Kangchenjunga ...

Snow leopards in the Kangchenjunga region regularly cross the borders of Nepal, India, and China in search of suitable habitat, ignoring human-drawn boundaries.

A team from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has successfully summited Mt Kangchenjunga (8,586 m), the third-highest peak in the world and the highest in India ...

Sirbaz Khan on Sunday successfully summited Mt. Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain, without supplementary oxygen, becoming the first Pakistani to scale all 14 peaks over 8,000 ...

Sirbaz summits Mt. Kangchenjunga, marking the completion of all 8,000-meter peaks Sirbaz Khan becomes the first Pakistani climber in history to conquer all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks ...

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The first wave of climbers plan to reach Camp 3 today, rest briefly, and then set off on a very long summit push. The fixed ropes end before the summit area.

Much has changed since Makalu and Kangchenjunga were first summited 70 years ago. Yet those early teams had much in common with modern climbers.

On 25 May 1955, Joe Brown and George Band, members of a British expedition, made history by becoming the first climbers to summit Mt. Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest peak.