Overview
- The pair summited on October 15 after a three‑day push up the mountain’s north face.
- They moved light and roped together, relying only on ice tools and crampons.
- The route takes a near‑vertical ice‑and‑rock wall roughly 2,300 meters high in Nepal’s Kangchenjunga region.
- The climb is being recognized as a major contemporary alpinism milestone on a long‑unclimbed Himalayan objective.
- Their effort followed about a month of acclimatization at a 4,700‑meter base camp.