#4 Mount Kangchenjunga, the border between India and Nepal
Height: 8.586 m

Take the bronze medal in the competition of the highest mountains in the world, defeated only by K2 and Everest, Kangchenjunga (translation from Nepali meens "the Five Treasures of Snow") is actually a massif which contains five peaks, each exceeding height of 8450 meters.



Until 1852, the scientific world believed that massive mountain is the highest mountain in the world. Due to its location in an area inaccessible to the most people, the mountain has preserved the purity and wilderness page. Do not enjoy ... not yet. In recent years, despite the advanced equipment, death rate increased to 22% a sad reflection of avalanches, more frequent due to global warming then add blizzards suddenly aroused. How Nature was not hostile enough for climbers and Montagnards, recently became the theater of military operations between Maoist guerrillas and Indian and Nepalese authorities.