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British climbers George Band and Joe Brown
reached the 28,160ft summit
in 1955.
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Climbers consider Kangchenjunga one of the
most difficult ascents
among the world’s 14 highest peaks.
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Only 195 people have climbed Mount Kangchenjunga,
according to the
Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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Kangchenjunga has a reputation for being a difficult mountain
and
normally takes more than three months to tackle
( climbing Mount Everest
– the
world’s highest mountain
at 29,035 feet
– normally takes two months ).
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Scaling Kangchenjunga involves a much longer approach hike
and the
mountain is prone to bad weather.
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Before the true height of Everest
was established in the mid-1800s,
Kangchenjunga, on the Nepal-India
border,
was thought to be the world’s highest mountain.
