Kanchenjunga

The mountains have their place in the myths and folklores as the dwelling of a mountain deity called Dzo-nga, sometimes called the ‘Kanchenjunga Demon,’ a type of yeti. In 1925, the bipedal creature was also spotted in the mountains by a British geological expedition. Moreover, people of both eastern and western sides of the mountain, in Nepal and Sikkim respectively, share the legend that there is a ‘valley of immortality’ obscured in the upper slopes of the mountains. The trekking in this region was opened in 1988.