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Nepal celebrates 50th anniversary of climb of Kanchenjunga, world's third-tallest peak
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/25/2005; ; 448 words
; ...anniversary of the ascent of Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third-tallest peak...half a century ago. Climbers consider Kanchenjunga one of the most difficult ascents among...some members of the first successful Kanchenjunga team _ including Band, 76, and some...
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Experts Call for Protection of Kanchenjunga Ecosystem
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 4/3/1997; 436 words
; ...to prepare groundwork to declare the Kanchenjunga mountain ecosystem as a protected area...workshop on the "Conservation of the Kanchenjunga Ecosystem" concluding here Wednesday...the area. The 8,568-meter Mt. Kanchenjunga, the third highest in the world...
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Nepal honours Kanchenjunga climbers marking its Golden Jubilee.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 5/25/2005; 471 words
; ...the mountaineers to have climbed the Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the...Celebration procession. Since 1955, Kanchenjunga has been climbed 195 times. It was...height of Mount Everest was calculated. Kanchenjunga is very difficult to climb and its...
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Two Japanese climbers die, four rescued on Mount Kanchenjunga
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/19/1998; 371 words
; ...Nepal's 28,330-foot Mount Kanchenjunga. Their bodies were left on the...10-member Japanese Alpine Club Kanchenjunga Expedition had used the north face route for their climb. Kanchenjunga is the world's highest mountain...
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hke S.Koreans Scale Mt. Kanchenjunga
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/20/2000; 286 words
; Two members of the 2000 Kanchenjunga Expedition of South Korea successfully scaled the 8, 586m high Mt. Kanchenjunga via the south west face Friday, according to the Nepali Tourism Ministry. The adventurers reached the summit at 5:30 a.m...
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THREE AMERICANS, ONE BRITON CONQUER MT. KANCHENJUNGA MAIN
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 5/29/1998; 320 words
; ...Americans and one Briton conquered the 8,586-meter Mount Kanchenjunga Main on May 18 from the north face, the Nepali Ministry...release. They were members of the six-strong International Kanchenjunga Expedition '98 led by Gray Scott Pfisterer, a 46-year...
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British Team Abandon Bid on Mount Kanchenjunga
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 10/27/1998; 270 words
; ...abandon their bid on October 20 on the 8,586-meter Mount Kanchenjunga situated between Nepal and India, the Nepali Ministry of...Civil Aviation said Tuesday. The seven-member British Kanchenjunga Expedition 1998 quit at an altitude of 7,400 meters, the...
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Travel: Sunday Travel: India Curry in the clouds Accompanied by a mobile restaurant, John Gimlette traverses a land of pink dogs and bewigged yaks to dine before the god-mountain Kanchenjunga
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/6/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga. Next door, Claude White, the first...Gangtok, we drove to Yoksum, halfway to Kanchenjunga. For seven hours, we threaded along...of 14,000ft and then, with mighty Kanchenjunga looming before us, we would eat the...
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Kanchenjunga steam train.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 6/1/2005; 258 words
; Trevor Vale prepares for this weekend's Silver Jubilee event to mark the 25th anniversary of the railway at Weston Park aboard the Kanchenjunga steam train
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Tibetans Scale Mt. Kanchenjunga
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 5/10/1998; 262 words
; A seven-member Tibetan mountaineering team conquered the 8,586-meter Mt. Kanchenjunga, the third hightest peak of the world, the Chinese mountaineering association confirmed here on Sunday. The seven Tibetans started...
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Kanchenjunga
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Kanchenjunga ( Kinchinjunga or Kanchanjanga ) Third-highest mountain in the world, in the e Himalayas. It was first climbed in 1955 by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. The highest of its five peaks reaches 8586m (28,169ft).
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Sikkimese
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...kilometers south of the main chain of the Himalayas called the Kanchenjunga range constitutes a distinctive physical unit of Sikkim...instability and apprehension. The Sikkimese tribes regard Kanchenjunga as the seat of an all-powerful god. The outstanding feature...
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mountain climbing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mdash;Mt. Everest, K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen), and Mt. Kanchenjunga—were conquered in the 1950s: Edmund Hillary and...1955 a British expedition led by Charles Evans surmounted Kanchenjunga. With the Chinese claim of an ascent of Gosainthan in 1964...
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India
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...name : Republic of India Area: 3,287,590 square kilometers (1,269,345 square miles) Highest point on mainland: Kanchenjunga (8,595 meters/28,208 feet) Lowest point on land: Sea level Hemispheres: Northern and Eastern Time zones: 3:30...
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Nepalis
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...feet (8,000 meters), including Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at 29,028 feet (8,848 meters). Kanchenjunga, Dhaulagiri, and Annapurna are among the better-known peaks of this group. The Kathmandu Valley lies north of the Mahabharat...
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