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 ...
Authorities in Sikkim, India, are demanding that Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, be banned to climbers out of respect for local deities. Kangchenjunga sprawls between Nepal and India, ...
Sikkim locals fume as India-Nepal climbers ‘defile’ sacred Kangchenjunga, world’s third-highest peak
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. But members of this expedition did ...
GUWAHATI: Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing concern over the scaling of the “sacred Mount Khangchendzonga” (Mount Kangchenjunga) by a ...
In two separate letters addressed to Nepal's tourism minister and the NMA president, SIBLAC urged the authorities to reconsider their decision to allow a joint mountaineering expedition involving ...
Our Forgotten 7,000'ers series continues with the climbing history of 7,362m Kirat Chuli, a striking, rarely attempted peak in Sikkim, in the Indian Himalaya. Also known as Tent Peak, Kirat Chuli has ...
Aleister Crowley, who scandalised Victorian society with his talk of the dark arts, was also an avid climber who attempted K2 in 1902 (Alamy/Daniel Light ) Crowley, though, was more than just a poseur ...
The Chungthang Dam that was destroyed by a glacial lake outburst flood on 4 October from the South Lhonak glacial lake north of Kangchenjunga in Sikkim. The devastating flood on Wednesday morning in ...
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