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Taplejung District, Koshi Province, Nepal / Sikkim, India · Nepal / India
Kangchenjunga
The third-highest mountain on Earth, Kangchenjunga rises on the Nepal-India border as a sprawling massif of five distinct summits — its name is said to mean 'the five treasures of the high snow.' Regarded as sacred by the peoples of Nepal and Sikkim, it is among the most dangerous and least-crowded of the eight-thousanders, with a remote approach and a historically high fatality rate that have kept it far less commercialized than Everest.
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