Wednesday 10th Mar 2010

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Trekking in Rara Lake


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Kanchanjunga - Nepal

Kanchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and the second highest in Nepal, located in the Taplejung district straddling the frontier between Nepal and India. Kanchenjunga means "Five Treasures of the Snow", as it contains five peaks, four of them over 8,450 metres. Until 1852, Kanchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations made by the British 1849 Great Trigonometric Survey showed Mount Everest to be the highest and Kanchenjunga the third-highest.
The five peaks of Kanchenjunga are as follows: