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This long and difficult trekking is located in the extreme east of Nepal in a particularly wild area. Shut in mountains between Sikkim and Tibet, the trek will take you to Pangpema, Kangchenjunga Base Camp and to Oktang at the Jammu's foot, in two different valleys. Remained a long time prohibited, this area forms a large variety of landscapes with always very high mountains in background: rice fields, jungle, rhododendrons forests, yaks pastures, moraines, glaciers, huge mountain faces... The view toward the Kangchenjunga, Jammu, Wedge Peak's faces are particularly impressive. The populations met, mainly Limbu and Raï, have other habits, other traditions that call attention to them. They remains to be discovered in their original valleys. Despite everything that could make it as a main trekking, it remains not too much visited. To discover...