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A painting of the snows of Kanchenjunga, pink under an orange sky, with its name in Hindi and English, on a ₹5 stamp.
Kanchenjunga
India Post issued four stamps on 19 May 1988 as Himalayan Peaks, at ₹1.50, ₹4, ₹5 and ₹6.50. The design follows a painting by Nicholas Roerich. At 8,586 metres Kanchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world, on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, and its name is explained as “the five treasures of the high snow”. Joe Brown and George Band first climbed it on 25 May 1955. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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