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...eyes, the finest vantage point lies near the northern Indian hill station of Darjeeling. The ridge of Sandakphu is the only place on earth from which you can see four of the five tallest mountains: 8,848-m Everest, 8,586-m Kangchenjunga (pictured), 8,511-m Lhotse and 8,463-m Makalu. (K-2, the second tallest at 8,611 m, is over the western horizon in Pakistan...
...Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Sandakphu is the only place on earth from which you can see four of the five tallest mountains: 8,848-m Everest, 8,586-m Kangchenjunga (pictured), 8,511-m Lhotse and 8,463-m Makalu. (K-2, the second tallest at 8,611 m, is over the western horizon in Pakistan.) Sandakphu is itself pretty high up at 3,638 m, and the easiest access is by one of Darjeeling's famous vintage Land Rover taxis...
After climbing three more, Kangchenjunga (28,169 ft.), Gasherbrum II (26,361 ft.) and Broad Peak (26,401 ft.), it seemed that he had exhausted the possibilities. Or had he? "It was in 1982," he says, "after my hat trick, after the first time I was able to climb three mountains in one season, that I understood it was easy, or at least it was possible, for one human being to climb all the highest mountains in the world, all 14 eight- thousanders, in a lifetime...
...Trek. The ascent had been planned with the thoroughness of a commando raid: vast preparation for a brief but crucial hour. The expedition assembled in March at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Its leader was John Hunt, 43, a grizzled British colonel whose knowledge of mountains (Kangchenjunga, K-36) and men (in World War II, he commanded Pathans, Gurkhas, Dogras and Scots) quickly won respect...
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