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Kanchenjunga

Kangchenjunga
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About Kanchenjunga

Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 8,586ย m (28,169ย ft) in a section of the Himalayas, the Kangchenjunga Himal, which is bounded in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak River and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River. It lies in the border region between Koshi Province of Nepal and Sikkim state of India, with the West and Kangbachen peaks located in Nepal's Taplejung District and the Main, Central and South peaks directly on the border.

On the show โ€” 3 mentions total

One of the things I love about Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain, is that no one's ever got to the top of it. Lots of people have got to 10 metres below the top.

from No Such Thing As A Sideways Treadmill, 2020-10-30 at 00:21:23 ยท read transcript

Other times Kanchenjunga came up

  1. Signs were there even in his mountaineering career so I he tried he he attempted the second highest mountain in the world and the third highest didn't he I think and failed at both but he tried K2 in 1902 and then Kanchenjunga in 1905 which is the third highest mountain in the world and he went up there with a group who didn't get along with him after a while and tried to depose him as their group leader and then there was a.

    345: No Such Thing As A Sideways Treadmill, 2020-10-30 ยท listen

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