Recently, there has been an increase in the enthusiasm of climbers and tourists for climbing the mountains of Taplejung.

Two French nationals successfully climbed the 6,808-meter-high ‘White Wave Peak’ for the first time in the second week of Asoj. According to Tenji Sherpa of Annapurna Foothills Treks and Expeditions, the climbers are French nationals Benjamin Charles Elie Vedrins and Nicolas Paul Aristide. Last week, a Chilean national successfully climbed Pathibhara Mountain, which is in the lap of Kanchenjunga. The three French nationals have reached the base camp area of ​​the mountain to climb Kumbhakarna (Phaktanglung), the 32nd highest mountain in the world and the 15th highest in Nepal, said the tourism assistant Sherpa. The height of the mountain is 7,710 meters.

In the last year, climbing the mountains here has started with enthusiasm. In November last year, four South Koreans successfully climbed Mount Sharfu-5, which is at an altitude of 6,328 meters, for the first time.

Mount Sharfu-4 was climbed for the first time in Chaitra last year. Chilean citizen Hernan Leal, mountaineer Lakpa Tshering Sherpa, Nada Sherpa and photographer Purnima Shrestha succeeded in climbing Mount Sharfu-4, which is at an altitude of 6,433 meters, for the first time.

According to Tashi Tenzing, a tourism assistant at the Ghunsa Tourism Check Post Office of the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area Management Council, 300 foreign tourists have visited the world's third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga. The Sherpa said that the season for visiting Kanchenjunga will be from the third week of last Bhadra to Mangsir 15.