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Kanchenjunga, this is the third-highest peak in the world and
the second-highest in Nepal. It was first climbed by a British team in 1956. The
peak consists of four summits. The west summit, Yalung Kang, is 8420m. high and some people
classify it as a separate 8000m peak. By the end of 2003, 145 people had climbed kanchenjunga on 85 expedition and 42 climbers had died on the mountain.
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The first westerner to explore Kanchenjunga was the
British
botanist JD Hooker, who visited the area twice in 1848 and 1849. Exploration of
the Sikkim side of the peak continued with both British and pundit explorers
mapping and photographing until 1899. In that year a party led by Douglas
Freshfield made a circuit of Kanchenjunga and produced what is still one of the
most authoritative maps of the region.
Exploration
continued, mostly from the Sikkim side, with
expeditions starting from Darjeeling in British India. One of the major
contributors to Western knowledge about the region was Dr AM Kellas, who later
Dide in Tibet during the approach march of the 1921 Everest Expedition.
German Expeditions attacked the peak in 1929, 1930 and again
1931, but none was successful. After the war Sikkim was closed but Nepal was
open.
In 1955 a team led
by Dr Charles Evans approached the peak via the Yalung Glacier.
Two
teams climbed the peak, stopping Just short of the summit
to conform to an agreement with the Maharaja of Sikkim that the summit would
remain inviolate.
The Japanese now took up the challenge and mounted
expeditions in 1976, 1973 and 1974 during which they climbed Yalung Kang. A
German Expedition climbed Yalung Kang in 1975, and in 1977 an Indian army team
mounted the second successful expedition to the main peak of kanchenjunga.
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Arrival In KTM and Transfer To Hotel. O/N KTM
Hotel (A)
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Day
02 - 05 |
Official Preparation day in Kathmandu (A, B)
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06 |
Drive to Phidim
(3158m). Overnight camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
07 |
Stay in Phidim for
arrangement of porters.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
08 |
Trek to Panchami.
Overnight in Camp
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
09 |
Trek to
Dole. O/N Dole.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
10 |
Trek to Khewang.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
11 |
Trek to Yamphudin.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
12 |
Trek to Amje Khola.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
13 |
Trek to Toronto.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
14 |
Trek to Tseram.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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15 |
Trek to Ramje.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
16 |
Trek to Glacier
Camp. Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
17 |
Trek to Kanchenjunga
BC.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
18-20 |
Leisure at BC for
acclimatization
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
21-51 |
Climbing
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
52 |
Leisure at BC for
acclimatization
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
53 |
Trek to Amje Khola.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
54 |
Trek to Yamphudin.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
55 |
Trek to Khewang.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
56 |
Trek to Panchami.
Overnight in Camp
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
57 |
Trek to Ghopetar.
Overnight in Camp.
(A,
B, L, D)
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Day
58 |
Drive from Gopetar
to Kathmandu. Transfer to hotel.
(A,
B)
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59-60 |
Stay in Kathmandu.
(A,
B)
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Departure to your
next destination.
(B)
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