The Kangchenjunga Trek in far-eastern Nepal is a remote and less-crowded adventure that offers raw wilderness, diverse cultures, and breathtaking terrain below the world’s third highest mountain.

Mountains and peaks may sound similar, but they are not the same. A mountain is a large landform that rises above the surrounding land. It usually has steep sides and a significant height. A peak, on ...

This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his journey ...

For many years, I had looked at books, magazines, websites and blogs, searching for photographs taken by Italian Vittorio Sella. Over the course of time, these photographs became like familiar friends ...

Did you know that back in 1984, the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, asked Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian astronaut to go into space, “How does India look from space?” and he replied, ...

KOLKATA: It was in May 1955 that a British mountaineering team successfully climbed Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain at 8,586m, for the first time. But members of this expedition did ...

In two separate letters addressed to Nepal's tourism minister and the NMA president, SIBLAC urged the authorities to reconsider their decision to allow a joint mountaineering expedition involving ...

Snow leopards in the Kangchenjunga region regularly cross the borders of Nepal, India, and China in search of suitable habitat, ignoring human-drawn boundaries. Their home ranges are significantly ...

Authorities in Sikkim, India, are demanding that Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, be banned to climbers out of respect for local deities. Kangchenjunga sprawls between Nepal and India, ...

GUWAHATI: Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing concern over the scaling of the “sacred Mount Khangchendzonga” (Mount Kangchenjunga) by a ...