Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today is the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain. Located on the ...
Last year, Bartek Ziemski and Oswald Rodrigo Pereira of Poland stunned the climbing community when flying under the radar, they completed unsupported ascents of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri without ...
A lawmaker in India is demanding an end to climbing on the world's third-tallest mountain. The Chief Minister of India's Sikkim region wants climbers to steer clear of the 28,169ft (8,586m) ...
A recent expedition to Mount Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak located on the border between India and Nepal, by a team of mountaineers from the Nepalese side has sparked outrage in Sikkim ...
In 2025, Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism added six new 8,000m peaks to those listed on its website. These are subsidiary summits of Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, which some view as insufficiently independent ...