KATHMANDU: A total of 84 mountaineering teams have obtained permits as of April 13 to climb mountains and peaks in Nepal this spring season. These expedition teams have 689 members. The government has collected a royalty of over Rs 373 million through climbing permits.
The teams obtaining permissions for 19 mountains and peaks including Mt Everest comprise people from 65 different countries including Nepal. Of them, 250 members including 194 males and 56 females from 45 countries will be attempting to scale the world's highest peak.
The royalty collection so far from the permission to climb Everest this season is calculated at over Rs 310 million. It may be noted that the 2021's spring season witnessed the ever-highest expedition teams (45) for Everest.
The Department of Tourism (DoT) hopes that the number of mountain expedition teams will rise this year as mountain tourism is vibrant after Covid 19 crisis subsided, and the climate is favourable for the expedition.
Tourism entrepreneurs say they are somehow enthusiastic to see the atmosphere suggesting good indicators in the tourism sector with the slowing down of Covid 19 infection risk.
Immediate past president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, and noted tourism entrepreneur Aang Tshering Sherpa said, "Though a lesser number of climbers this year relative to the previous year, it seems Nepal's mountain tourism is attracting more foreign climbers and it is indeed noteworthy. The number is gradually rising."
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FILE - Mt Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal, on November 12, 2015. Photo: AP via RSS[/caption]
Both Nepali and foreign climbers are going for this season's expedition to Mt Everest after taking the climbing permit. So far 250 climbers belonging to 31 expedition teams have alone acquired permission for climbing Mt Everest (8848.86m).
Similarly, 64 climbers of nine expedition teams have acquired permission to climb Mt Lhotse (8,516m), 65 climbers from six teams have taken permission for climbing Mt Amadablam (6,814m) and 38 mountaineers of five expedition teams have got permission to climb Mt Kanchenjunga (8586m).
Likewise, 38 mountaineers belonging to five teams have taken permission for climbing Mt Nuptse (7,855m), 26 climbers of four groups have acquired permission to climb Mt Annapurna (8,091m), two expedition teams have taken permission for climbing Mt Dhaulagiri (8,167m), two teams for climbing Milung Chuli, and three mountaineering teams for climbing Bhemdong, Gangapurna and Thapa Peak, the Mountaineering Section of the DoT stated in a press release.
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FILE - Mt Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal, on November 12, 2015. Photo: AP via RSS[/caption]
Both Nepali and foreign climbers are going for this season's expedition to Mt Everest after taking the climbing permit. So far 250 climbers belonging to 31 expedition teams have alone acquired permission for climbing Mt Everest (8848.86m).
Similarly, 64 climbers of nine expedition teams have acquired permission to climb Mt Lhotse (8,516m), 65 climbers from six teams have taken permission for climbing Mt Amadablam (6,814m) and 38 mountaineers of five expedition teams have got permission to climb Mt Kanchenjunga (8586m).
Likewise, 38 mountaineers belonging to five teams have taken permission for climbing Mt Nuptse (7,855m), 26 climbers of four groups have acquired permission to climb Mt Annapurna (8,091m), two expedition teams have taken permission for climbing Mt Dhaulagiri (8,167m), two teams for climbing Milung Chuli, and three mountaineering teams for climbing Bhemdong, Gangapurna and Thapa Peak, the Mountaineering Section of the DoT stated in a press release.
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Published Date: April 14, 2022, 12:00 am
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