Lhotse, 8516 m (The fourth highest peak in the world)

Lhotse is connected to Everest via the south col and is the fourth highest mountain in the world. The main summit is 8516 m while Lhotse Middle (east) is 8414 m and Lhotse shar is 8383 meters. It lies at Solukhumbu district.  Very often climbers making an attempt on Everest, go up the Lhotse to acclimatize.  In fact, the usual route leading to Everest starts up the North West face of Lhotse and then cuts across to the more famous mountain.
      An early attempt on Lhotse was made by the 1955 International Himalayan Expedition. They climbed up the west Camp and the North West face of Lhotse reaching an altitude of 8100 m. They were beaten back by unexpectedly strong wind and cold temperatures.
The first to the Lhotse summit were Swiss team of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger from the Swiss Mount Everest/Lhotse  Expedition on 18th may  1956. And Lhotse shar was Summitted on 12th may. The first Nepali to reach the Lhotse summit was  Urkien Tshering Sherpa on 8th may 1977.

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Kanchanjunga (Third Highest Peak In The World)

Early Mount Kanchanjunga was considered as the highest mountain in the world. Later it became apparant that the peak was only the third highest mountain after the Everest and K2(Karakoram, Pakisthan). It lies 128 km east of Everest. The western face lies in Nepal, Taplejung district while the other side lies in the state of sikkim, India. Kanchenjunga or Kanchenzonga in Sikkimese means "Five treasures of the Great Snows" as the mountain has five porminent peaks. They are Kanchanjunga Main (8586m.) Yalung Kang (8505m.), Kanchanjunga West (8420m.) and the Twin Peaks (Both 8476m.). Unlike most of other Himalayan peaks, this mountain lies north to south and the Kanchanjunga glacier drains into the tamor river which is tributory of Koshi. Kanchanjunga is one of the most difficult mountain to climb. Climbing Kanchanjunga has been contemped by as far back as in 1882. Yet no attempt was made till 1905. The first to go up the Yalung glaicer was Alaister Crowely but he lost four men on the moountain. After than for fifteen years no one dared another attempt. In 1929 an American climber named Francis Climbed up the south face but he was never seen again. After that also many climbers from different countries made unsuccesful attempt to the kanchanjunga summit. Many Climbers and potters lost their life during this period.

Wihth the breakout of second world war, there was no climbing in the himalayas. The next attempt was made by Gilmour Lewis and George Frey in 1951 and they failed. Once more they tried in 1954 with no more sucess.

Finally Fifty years afer the first attempt, in 1955 a British expedition took off, led by Charles Evanas who had been a member of succesful expidition on Everest two years earlier. Goerge Band and Joe Brown finally made it to the summit of this difficult mountain. The first Nepali to climb the Kanchanjunga was Ang Phurba Sherpa on 14th may 1980.

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Mt. Everest/Sagarmatha, 8848 M.

Latidude :27degree, 59' 17" N, Longitude : 86 degree, 55' 31" E

Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world lies in the Khumbu region, Solukhumbu district, at Sagarmatha Zone of Eastern develpoment Region, Nepal on the northen border with Tibet/China and also falls within the Sagarmatha National Park. The Tibetian and Sherpas whi lives close to the mountain Knew it as a chhomolungma and the Nepalese government gave it the name "Sagarmatha". The name Everest was named by Andrew Waugh in honor of his predecessor, George Everest.         At 29th may 1953 the Newleland's climber Edmund Hillary and a Neapaleese Tenjing Norke Sherpa reached the Everest Summit for the very first time. Before that many climbers had tried to reach the summit but no succesful climb was made. After Sherpa and Hillary reached the top of the world, they prooved that man kind can climb the everest and survive at sucha great altitude. Many tried had been made to reach the everest summit before 1953. Before 29 years of sucessful cilimbing of Everest all the way In 1924, Mallory and Lrvine had dissappeared after they were last seen 240m. below the summit. Although Mallory's well preserved body was found high up the mountain in 1999, nobody is really sure either they made it to the summit or died on the way up.

Since 1953 many records have been broken and many Sherpas have climbed more than 10 times each. Many of climbers today climbs everest to set new records such as speed record, to become youngest or oldest and for many others record.  

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Kanchanjunga Conservation Area

Total Area : 2035 sq km.
Buffer Zone : -
Activities :Treeking, mountaineering
Accommodation : Tea houses, Camping
Access : Fly to taplejung from kathmandu or Biratnagar
Best Season : Mar-May, Sep-Nov
Reserve Headquarter : Lelep , Taplejung
Contact : 025-53089

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Kanchanjunga Conservation Area is situated in the north-eastern Nepal in the district of Taplejung , the Kanchanjunga Conservation Area is boardered by the Tibet-China in the north and Sikkim-India in the east and sankhuwasava district in the west. The area has alpine grasslands, low river valleys with temperate and sub-tropical forests. Ten spicies among Nepal's 20 indigenous gymnosperms and 15 among Nepal's 23 endemic flowering plants are found in this region. In addition almost 30 varieties of rhododendron spicies and 48 varieties of orchids are found here. Wildlife include endangered snow leopard, Himalayan black bear, musk deer, red panda, blue sheep and rhesus monkey. About 252 spicies of different birds including impheyan pheasant, reb-billed, blue magpie, shy drongo are found in the area.

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Koshi Tapu Wild Life Reserve

Total Area : 175 sq km.
Buffer Zone : 173 sq km.
Activities :Game viewing, bird watching
Accommodation : Resort ,Tented Camps
Access :90-minutes drive from Biratnagar which is 50 minutes via air or 500 km by               road from Kathmandu
Best Season : Oct-Mar :April-Jun (hot)
                       Jun-Sep (monsoon)
Reserve Headquarter :Kusaha, Sunsari
Contact : 025-530897

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Koshitapu wildlife reserve has been craved a place for itself as a bird watcher paradise. The reserve spreads over the saptari and sunsari districts in the East Nepal over the embankments of Koshi River. The reserve has been recognized as a wetland site from 1987. The vegetation of the reserve is mainly grassland with patches of scrub and decidious riverine forest. The reserve has recorded around 479 spicies of bird variety, some of which fly all the way from siberia during winter. A wide variety of ducks, herons, strocks, egrets, ibis are seen of riverbank. Koshitapu Wildlife Reserve also has one of the few elephant stables of Asia. Other animal found here are wild buffalo, wild boar, hog deer, spotted deer, blue bull jackal. Gharial crocodile and Genetic dolphins are also found here.

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