Kangchenjunga
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- proper noun
- /kæŋˈtʃɛŋdʒʊŋɡə/
- Shirakawa's photograph of Kangchenjunga, "the five treasure houses of snow," in impossible light: he and his camera are poised in the void over a basin of burning stone, molten ore.
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Access to Kangchenjunga: from 1845 to 1856 it was "generally supposed" to be the highest mountain in the world.
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It is Kangchenjunga.
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Was gazing at Kangchenjunga something my mother taught me?
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I can see Kangchenjunga.
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The referent Kangchenjunga, in its variant spelling, is securely present and growing, having steadily been recognized as knowledge at a distance.
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After climbing some smaller peaks, they returned to Darjeeling with plans to test the possibility of reaching the southwest face of Kangchenjunga by way of Yalung.
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Sir Joseph Hooker, an English botanist, was the first European to explore the valleys and ridges between Darjeeling and Kangchenjunga.
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She approaches the description of Kangchenjunga gradually, on first arriving in Darjeeling, asking her mother merely to imagine a peak rising 21,000 feet above the town, half of which is perpetually snow-covered, at a distance of less than 50 miles.
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With a grant from the Royal Geographical Society and Alpine Club, Kempe led the Kangchenjunga Reconnaissance Expedition in the spring of 1954, proceeding from Darjeeling up the Singalila ridge to the Yalung.
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Kangchenjunga, located on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, is the third highest mountain in the world at 28,208 feet.
Synonyms
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A very high mountain in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and India, the third highest in the world
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The third highest mountain in the world on the border of Nepal and India
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A very high mountain in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, the third highest in the world
A mountain that is the third highest in the world on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, India
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kangchenjunga comes from Tibetan and local words like Kangchen and junga, and it means 'the five treasures of the great snow'. People believed the mountain held five sacred treasures, so the name explains why local people consider it special and why climbers are drawn to it.