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C3 at Great Shelf
C4 just above Great Shelf.

BSF Expedition 2008 Mt. Kangchenjunga led by Satish Chander Nair - 8 June 2008

The expedition's summit push was made by five members and five Sherpas who started from BC on 18 May. They were Bounthiyal, Dahal, Dharmshaktu, Praveen Kumar, Kedar Singh, Pasang Sherpa, Ngata Sherpa, Dawa Jangbu, Sangay Furi and Lhakpa Sherpa. They went to C2 on the 18th, C3 on the 19th, and 21st to C4, where they waited for oxygen and other supplies to be brought up to them from C3.

On 24 May at 11:00 pm the ten climbers left C4 for the summit and all of them reached the top between 12:55 and 1:00 pm on the 25th. They returned to C4 at 8:00 pm, were in C2 on the 26th and BC on the 27th.

The expedition fixed 6200m of rope from the first ice wall just above BC to slightly below the col between Yalung Kang and Kangchenjunga's main peak, at which point the climbers traversed to the right on Kangchenjunga's SW Face and thence to the summit.

They had 42 bottles of oxygen with them. It was used by only the summit party in their push from C3 to the top to C4. All of them used it.

Sherpas:
Dawa Jangbu, 18/1/80 (4/10/2036), Tamakhani-8, Solu, no 8000ers
Pasang Sherpa, 27/4/78 (4/1/2035), Lelep-8, Taplejung, no 8000ers
Ngata Sherpa, 2/2/76 (9/10/2032), Lelep-9, Everest 23/5/07
Lhakpa Sherpa, 26/11/82 (11/8/2039), Rakha Bangdel-5, Khotang, no 8000ers
Sangay Phuri/Furi, 24/11/70 (9/8/2027), Makalu-9, no 8000ers