Jongsong Peak

Jongsong Peak is a mountain in the Janak section of the Himalayas. At it is the 57th highest peak in the world, although it is dominated by the 3rd highest, Kangchenjunga, to the south. Jongsong's summit is on tripoint of India, Nepal and China.

History

The first ascent was made on 2 June 1930 by and Erwin Schneider, members of an international expedition which included climbers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK and was led by Günter Dyhrenfurth. Until the first ascent of Kamet on 21 June 1931 by Frank Smythe, Jongsong was the highest climbed peak in the world. Several members of the Jongsong Peak first ascent team were also members of the international mountaineering organisation The Himalayan Club.
On 30 September 2012, a team from the Kolkata section of the Himalayan Club, ascended the Jongsong peak's east summit on a new route via the eastern ridge of the Jongsong peak from a col between the Jongsong massif and an adjoining peak called Dome Kang. The previous day, another team from the same expedition scaled Dome Kang from the common col along its east face. They had approached the mountains from the Jongsong glacier, Sikkim.