With an elevation of 8586 metres, Kanchenjunga is the India’s highest Himalayan peak.
It is also the world’s third highest peak, after Mt. Everest and K2, and the Himalayas’ second highest peak, as K2 is located in the Karakoram range.
Kanchenjunga translates to “five treasures of snow” in Tibetan because a summit is made up of five peaks, three of which are in Sikkim, India, near the border with Nepal, and the other two in Nepal.
Kanchenjunga was thought to be the highest mountain peak in the world until 1852, when it was measured as part of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India and declared the third highest peak in 1856.
Final Answer:
Kanchenjunga is the highest peak in the Indian Himalayas.