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Kangchenjunga at sunset |
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View from Ghoom in N direction to Kangchenjunga (8586 m). This highest mountain of India and third highest in the world forms the border between Sikkim and Nepal. Its name means Five Treasures of Snow, referring to its five summits. Kangchenjunga is considered a sacred mountain by the local communities.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Monday 13 November 2017 by Martin Mergili
- Keywords
- cloudscape, eight-thousander, glacial processes, lightscape, mountainscape, mountaintop, snowscape
- Visits and license
- 6723 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license