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| | Trekking Sikkim India |
 | | This is Everest summiteer Jamling Tenzing Norgay's favorite trek: a nine-day hike on his home turf of Sikkim, culminating in unbelievably spectacular views of mighty Kanchenjunga (28,208'), third highest mountain in the world. |
 | | According to Jamling, a devout Buddhist, this trek is also a spiritual journey because Padmasambhava, the 8th-century saint who brought Buddhism to Tibet, is said to have meditated in the caves along these same trails. |
 | | Jamling first summited "the big one" in 1996, and in doing so, followed in the footsteps of his father, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who made the first Everest ascent in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary. |
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