Local Lhopo people believe that the treasures are hidden but reveal themselves to the devout when the world is in peril the treasures comprise salt, gold, turquoise and precious stones, sacred scriptures, invincible armor or ammunition, grain and medicine. The brothers Hermann, Adolf and Robert Schlagintweit explained the local name 'Kanchinjínga' meaning “The five treasures of the high snow” as originating from the Tibetan word "gangs" pronounced meaning snow, ice "chen" pronounced meaning great "mzod" meaning treasure "lnga" meaning five. 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 mountain is off-limit to climbers from the Indian side. They stopped short of the summit following the promise given to the Chogyal of Sikkim that the top of the mountain would remain inviolate. Kangchenjunga was first climbed on by Joe Brown and George Band, who were part of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. Allowing for further verification of all calculations, it was officially announced in 1856 that Kangchenjunga is 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 the highest. It lies in the border region between the Sikkim state of India and Nepal, 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 on the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak Chu and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River. Kangchenjunga, also spelt Kanchenjunga and Khangchendzonga, is the third highest mountain in the world. Kangchenjunga and surrounding peaks at sunset from ISS, December 2019
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