- British climbers
George Band and Joe Brown reached the 28,160-foot
summit in 1955.
- Climbers consider
Kangchenjunga one of the most difficult ascents
among the world’s 14 highest peaks.
- Only 195 people have
climbed Mount Kangchenjunga, according to the
Nepal Mountaineering Association.
- Kangchenjunga has a
reputation for being a difficult mountain and
normally takes more than three months to tackle (
climbing Mount Everest – the world’s
highest peak at 29,035 feet – normally takes
two months ).
- Scaling Kangchenjunga
involves a much longer approach hike and the
mountain is prone to bad weather.
- Before Everest’s
true height was established in the mid-1800s,
Kangchenjunga, on the Nepal-India border, was
thought to be the world’s highest mountain.