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Mt. Kabru a view from Kewzing @ 6:29 AM
Reached a spot to get the early morning golden-red Light and the intensity of the light ,I observed last only for few minutes So u get few minutes to setup and compose your pictures. Nikon D750, Nikon 200-500 @ 200 mm , Tripod, Remote , Multi bracketing , Spot metering , Manul Mode. F8 , ISO 100, Shutter speed 1/50s. Post-processed using Lightroom The name Kanchenjunga is derived from four words of Tibetan origin, usually rendered Kang-chen-dzo-nga or Yang-chhen-dzö-nga and interpreted in Sikkim as the “Five Treasuries of the Great Snow.” The mountain holds an important place in the mythology and religious ritual of the local inhabitants, and its slopes were no doubt familiar to herdsmen and traders for centuries before a rough survey of it was made. The first known map of Kanchenjunga was made by Rinzin Namgyal, one of the pandit (“learned”) explorers of the mid-19th century, who made a circuital sketch. In 1848 and 1849 Sir Joseph Hooker, a botanist, was the first European to visit and describe the region, and in 1899 the explorer-mountaineer Douglas Freshfield traveled around the mountain. In 1905 an Anglo-Swiss party attempted Freshfield’s suggested Yalung valley route, and four members perished in an avalanche. Mountaineers later explored other faces of the massif. A Bavarian expedition led by Paul Bauer in 1929 and 1931 vainly attempted to climb it from the Zemu side, and in 1930 the German-Swiss climber Günter O. Dyhrenfurth attempted it from the Kanchenjunga Glacier. The greatest height reached during these explorations was 25,263 feet (7,700 metres) in 1931. Fatal accidents on two of these expeditions gave the mountain a reputation for unusual danger and difficulty. No one else attempted to climb it until 1954, when, partly because the Sikkimese objected, attention was again turned to the Yalung face, which is in Nepal. Gilmour Lewis’s visits to the Yalung in 1951, 1953, and 1954 led to a 1955 British expedition led by Charles Evans, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club (London), which stopped within a few yards of the actual summit in deference to the religious beliefs and wishes of the Sikkimese. Other Kanchenjunga climbing milestones include the first woman to reach the summit (Briton Ginette Harrison in 1998), the first solo ascent (Frenchman Pierre Béghin in 1983), and the first ascent without the use of supplemental oxygen (Britons Peter Boardman, Doug Scott, and Joe Tasker in 1979). Source : http://www.britannica.com |
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by Gary Briney
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