The first successful summit of Yalung Kang was by the
Kyoto University Yalung Khang Expedition in 1973. Two members of the 16 member expedition team reached the summit via the Southwest ridge, Yutaka Ageta and Takao Matsuda. Matusda was lost on the descent, all that could be found was part of a broken ice ax.
1980s In 1980, Sergio Hugo Saldano Meneses from the
University of Mexico Himalayas Expedition made the first successful summit of Yalung Kang without bottled oxygen, climbing via the SE face. He, along with Alfonso Medina and Chowang Renzi Sherpa, were lost on the descent. On April 22, 1985,
Tomo Česen and Borut Bergant, members of a Slovenian climbing expedition claimed to have made the first successful summit of Yalung Kang via the North. The two climbed without supplemental oxygen, unfortunately, Bergant was lost on the descent. This ascent has been disputed. Yalung Kang was first successfully climbed in winter by the 1989-90 Korean Winter Yalung Kang Expedition. Climbing via the SE face, Kyo-Sup Jin, Ang Dawa Sherpa and Tchiring Thebe Sherpa all reached the summit on December 20, 1989, but were killed in the descent. In 2024, 18-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa became the youngest person ever to summit Mt. Kanchenjunga and also Yalung Kang. == References ==