Kanchenjunga: Southwest Face (Yalung Face)
The route of the 1955 first ascent, starting on the Yalung Glacier and climbing the Yalung Face on the Nepal side.
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At a glance
- Base camp
- Not yet documented
- Base camp location
- Not yet documented
- First climbed
- 25 May 1955Source: Wikipedia (English)
The camps on this route are not yet documented with a source.
The route
The first ascent was made on 25 May 1955 by Joe Brown and George Band of the British expedition, by this route. Norman Hardie and Tony Streather followed on 26 May.1
The face is about 3,000 m high and is almost entirely snow and glacier, with one icefall. The first ascent used six camps above base camp, two of them on the Great Shelf at around 7,500 m. The climbers stopped just short of the true summit.1
Sources
- Kangchenjunga, Wikipedia (English). Retrieved 4 November 2026.
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