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Alternative spellings include Kanchenjunga, Khangchendzonga and Kangchendzönga. Freshfield referred to the spelling used by the Indian Government since the late 19th century. Kangchenjunga is the official spelling adopted by Douglas Freshfield, Alexander Mitchell Kellas and the Royal Geographical Society that gives the best indication of the Tibetan pronunciation. In 2016, the adjoining Khangchendzonga National Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Indian side of the mountain is off-limits to climbers.

They stopped just short of the true summit, keeping a promise given to the Chogyal of Sikkim that the top of the mountain would remain inviolate.

The Kangchenjunga is a sacred mountain in Sikkim and was first climbed on by Joe Brown and George Band, who were part of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. After allowing for further verification of all calculations, it was officially announced in 1856 that Kangchenjunga was the third highest mountain. Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations and measurements by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1849 showed that Mount Everest, known as Peak XV at the time, is actually higher.

It lies in the border region between Nepal and Sikkim state of India, with three of the five peaks, namely Main, Central and South, directly on the border, and the peaks West and Kangbachen in Nepal's Taplejung District. Its summit lies at 8,586 m (28,169 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.

Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga and Khangchendzonga, is the third highest mountain in the world. Kangchenjunga and surrounding peaks at sunset from ISS, December 2019