Kangchenjunga South Peak is a high

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Kangchenjunga Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at 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 ...

, the third highest mountain in the world. The summit is located in the

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, on the border between

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and

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. A ridge leads north over the middle peak to the main peak of Kangchenjunga. To the east, a ridge branches off to Zemu Kang (). To the south, the ridge continues over Hogsback Peak () and Talung () to

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The mountain has rarely been climbed, with only six expeditions counted by the Himalayan Database as of 2024. The first ascent of Kangchenjunga South took place in 1978, 23 years after the first successful summit of the main peak. It was climbed by a Polish team consisting of Eugeniusz Chrobak and Wojciech Wróż. In 1989, the mountain was climbed for the first time without supplemental oxygen by a Russian team led by Eduard Myslovsky. In 1991,

Marko Prezelj Marko Prezelj (born 13 October 1965) is a Slovenian mountaineer and photographer. Prezelj received four Piolet d'Or awards. He won the inaugural "Oscar of mountaineering" in 1992 with Andrej Štremfelj for their new route on the south ridge of ...

and

Andrej Štremfelj Andrej Štremfelj (born 17 December 1956) is a Slovenian mountaineer, and in 2019, became the 10th recipient of the Piolet d'Or ''Lifetime Achievement Award''. Life and work Štremfelj was born in Kranj and got involved in mountaineeri ...

successfully summitted Kangchenjunga South by its Southwest ridge, in

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. After a challenging climb, they reached the summit on April 30. The following year, the pair were awarded the inaugural

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for their successful ascent. In 2012, Kangchenjunga South was first summitted in Winter, when it was climbed by German Philipp Kunz and his team of four Sherpas, Tshering Dorje Sherpa, Kami Chiriri Lama, Lhakpa Wangel Sherpa, and Nima Ongdi Sherpa. The team reached the summit on February 15. Supplementary oxygen was not used in the ascent, and the expedition took 15 days in total.

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* Nepal Himal Peak Profile * Kangchenjunga South, Nepal/India o
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