Nepal's Department of Tourism recently added four Kangchenjunga secondary summits and two Lhotse subpeaks to its list of 8,000m peaks. We examine the climbing history of Kangchenjunga's subpeaks and ...

Today is the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain. Located on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, India, Kangchenjunga means the Five Treasures ...

The imposing Kangchenjunga massif as seen from the North Base Camp region. All photos: ALTON C BYERS The Kangchenjunga region is where modern tourism first started in Nepal. As early as the mid-1800s, ...

Months after several climbers accused him of false summit claims, The Himalayan Database has invalidated his alleged climb of ...

An Indian Army expedition climbed Kangchenjunga from the Nepal side in May. Photo: RANVEER SINGH JAMWAL / INSTAGRAM Recent outrage in Sikkim over an Indian Army expedition climbing Kangchenjunga, the ...

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 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 ...

Minister of State for Forests and Soil Conservation, Gopal Rai, handed over the management of the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) to the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area Management Council at a ...

New scientific revelations have come out of city-based mountaineering club Giripremi’s Kangchenjunga eco expedition last year. Nearly 60 people participated as support trekkers in the eco expedition ...

The Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) lies within the Sacred Himalayan Landscape and is a key link in the chain of transboundary protected areas in the vast landscape, maintaining contiguity ...

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