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    Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā and Khangchendzonga, is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 8,586 m (28...
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    called the Kangchenjunga Himal. Because of its remote location in Nepal and the difficulty of accessing it from India, the Kangchenjunga region is not...
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  • Look up Kangchenjunga in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world. Kanchenjunga, Kanchenjungha, Kanchanjangha...
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    The 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition succeeded in climbing the 28,168-foot (8,586 m) Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, for the...
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    world, Everest, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu can be seen from its summit. It also affords a pristine view of the entire Kangchenjunga Range. Sandakphu...
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    including alpine and subtropical climates, as well as being a host to Kangchenjunga, the highest peak in India and third-highest on Earth. Sikkim's capital...
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    make public some of Crowley's pornographic poetry. The 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition was the first to succeed in reaching the summit, starting...
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    he and his brothers established the record Most siblings to climb Kangchenjunga. On 27 July 2023, Tenjen Lama Sherpa became the 50th recorded mountaineer...
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    to climb all 14 eight-thousanders. On May 18, 2009, Pasaban climbed Kangchenjunga with, among others, Juanito Oiarzabal and the Polish climber Kinga Baranowska...
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    the world, Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga; fastest summit of the five highest mountains in the World, Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu; fastest...
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  • the summits of the five highest peaks in the world (Makalu, Lhotse, Kangchenjunga, K2 and Everest) without using bottled oxygen. In 1987 he lost the front...
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  • peak, Mount Everest, as well as other "near−highest" peaks, such as Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, and Nanga Parbat, are part of the Greater Himalayas range....
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  • list of the highest points of the Indian states and union territories. Kangchenjunga (8,586 m) Nanda Devi (7,816 m) Saltoro Kangri (7,742m) Nun Kun (7,135...
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  • 000 metre summits is called the Siwaliks or Churiya Hills. Everest Kangchenjunga Lhotse Makalu Cho Oyu Dhaulagiri I Manaslu Annapurna I Gyachung Kang...
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    ascended Kangchenjunga was disputed by multiple experts. Oh later admitted that she had stopped a few hundred meters before the summit of Kangchenjunga, and...
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    the British survey wanted to preserve local names if possible (e.g., Kangchenjunga and Dhaulagiri), and Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India...
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    eastern Nepal and India. It is part of a ridge that extends south from Kangchenjunga and is the southernmost 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) peak in the world....
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    Gasherbrum I 1991 – Cho Oyu 1991 – Annapurna I 1992 – Kangchenjunga (uncertain) While climbing Kangchenjunga, 49-year-old Rutkiewicz was last seen alive by Mexican...
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    Broad Peak), Krzysztof Wielicki (Everest, Kangchenjunga, and Lhotse) and Jerzy Kukuczka (Dhaulagiri I, Kangchenjunga, and Annapurna I). On 16 October 1986...
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    Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism. The summits of several—Kangchenjunga (from the Indian side), Gangkhar Puensum, Machapuchare, Nanda Devi,...
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    ever to scale three eight-thousanders in one year. He planned to climb Kangchenjunga, then Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak.[citation needed] Messner chose a...
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    highest point on Earth 2. K2, the highest summit of the Karakoram 3. Kangchenjunga, the second-highest mountain of the Himalaya 4. Lhotse, the third-highest...
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  • 3 Anidesh chuli 6960 Kangchenjunga Taplejung KtmTaplejungGhunsaBC 4 Chabuk (Tsajirip) 6960 Kangchenjunga Taplejung KtmTaplejungDovanNilungSojangGhunsaBC...
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    Pyramid in Australasia.[citation needed] On 18 May 1998, she climbed Kangchenjunga by its north face, making her the first woman to have reached the summit...
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    second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country. (Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and Nepal...
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    eastern India, while the Deccan Plateau occupies most of southern India. Kangchenjunga, in the Indian state of Sikkim, is the highest point in India at 8,586 m...
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    8,000 meters) that Habeler has summited are Cho Oyu, Nanga Parbat, Kangchenjunga and Gasherbrum I. He has also climbed Yerupaja Chico (6089 m) in Peru's...
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    643 ft) above sea level, Nanda Devi is the highest mountain in Uttarakhand and the second-highest mountain in India, following Kangchenjunga in Sikkim....
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    controversy surrounding her climb on Kangchenjunga. Later on, she admitted that she could not summit Kangchenjunga and had to stop a few hundred metres...
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    are in Nepal or on its border with Tibet: Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Kangchenjunga, Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu. Pahad is the mountain region that...
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