Kathmandu, May 19 -- A joint team of Indian and Nepali Army successfully summited Mt Kanchenjunga on Monday, the third-highest peak, expedition organisers said.

The climbers, part of the Joint Indo-Nepal Army Mountaineering Expedition, a high-altitude mission emphasising cooperation between neighbouring countries, reached the summit on Monday morning.

Seven Summit Treks, the expedition's logistics partner, confirmed that the joint team summited the 8,586-meter-tall mountain in Eastern Nepal.

The Indian team members included Sarfraz Singh (team leader), Tsering Dorjey, Tarun Singh Sindhu, Sanjay Kumar, and Satish Singh. The Nepali army contingent comprised Prashant Khadka, Janak Saud, Nabin Tarami Magar, and Amar Bahadur Karki.

They we...