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Updated On: 11 October, 2009 08:50 AM IST | | Shamik Bag
With its enormous spread and piercing reach, the mountain had fooled many for many years
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With its enormous spread and piercing reach, the mountain had fooled many for many years. That was when Mt Kanchenjunga was widely regarded as the world's tallest mountain before Radhanath Sikdar the 'Bengali computer' working for the Great Trigonometrical Survey discovered in 1852 that Peak XV was actually the tallest. Since then among mountain lovers, Mt Everest has commanded the height, but Kanchenjunga maintained its stature. Down in the sultry, sulking plains of Bengal, we are fools for the Kanchenjunga.
As the early morning mist gathers above the green paddy fields of Jalpaiguri, there it glows in the distance a delicate and distant landscape of snow; crowning over the burning plains and seething chaos of Siliguri.
A week later, as we stand at a high altitude balcony, we are fools for the Kanchenjunga still.
As the early morning mist gathers above the green paddy fields of Jalpaiguri, there it glows in the distance a delicate and distant landscape of snow; crowning over the burning plains and seething chaos of Siliguri.
A week later, as we stand at a high altitude balcony, we are fools for the Kanchenjunga still.
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