Kanchenjunga

Kanchenjunga (also Kangchenjunga), mountain, south central Asia, in the Himalaya, on the frontier between Nepal and Sikkim, India. The mountain, the third highest in the world, has five peaks; the highest is 8,598 m (28,209 ft) above sea level. In 1929 a Bavarian expedition attempted, but failed, to climb the mountain. In 1931 another German party set out to make the ascent. Two members of the party were killed in a fall, and the group was forced to abandon the climb. The area of the summit was finally reached in 1955 by a British expedition led by the Welsh educator and mountaineer Charles Evans, one of the leaders of the expedition that had conquered Mount Everest. In deference to local religious beliefs, they stopped a few metres short of the summit.