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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With my triple crown complete, I realised it’s amazing how travel connects us with people that we had never met before. Read Part I of this travelogue here. In the first part of this travelogue, I had ...

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 ...

The forest ridge trail above the village of Rinchenpong in west Sikkim is a treasure trove of Buddhist culture and traveller's tales ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...