ARTA – Nepalese authorities plan to increase the cost of climbing permits on Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s highest peak more expensive for climbers for the first time in almost a decade. officials said Wednesday.
Res permit fees and other expenses from foreign climbers are a major source of income and employment for the cash-strapped country, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Mount Evers.
to climb Everest to 8,849 meters (29,032 feet) will cost US$15,000 (IDR 242,556,720), said Narayan Prasad Regmi, director general of the Ministry of Tourism, who announced a 36% increase in the cost of 11,000 US dollars (177,874,920) which has been valid for almost a decade.
alti (the cost of the permit) has not been examined for a long time. We have updated it now,” Regmi was quoted as saying by Reuters on January 24.
an, which will come into force from September and applies to the popular April-May climbing period along the standard route of the South East Range, or South Col, which was inaugurated by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
for the less popular September-November season and the cheaper December-Feb season will also increase by 36%, to 7,500 US dollars (121,278,375) and 3,750 US dollars (60,639,187 IDR).
renal, a number of expedition organizers said the increase, which has been discussed since last year, was unlikely to break climbers. Around 300 permits are issued each year for Everest.
“We have anticipated an increase in this permit cost,” said Lukas Furtenbach, head of Austria-based expedition organization Furtenbach Adventures.
el said it was an “understandable measure” by the Nepalese government.
-“I am sure that the additional funds will be used to protect the environment and improve safety on Everest,” Furtenbach said.
did not tell him what the extra income would be used for.
ero, hundreds of climbers try to climb Everest and several other peaks in the Himalayas every year.
of Nepal, on the other hand, is often criticized by climbing experts for allowing too many climbers on Everest and not doing much to maintain its cleanliness or ensure the safety of climbers.
Regmi said cleaning drives were organized to collect garbage and installation of ropes and other safety measures were carried out regularly.
riders who returned from Everest said the mountain was becoming drier and limestone with less snow or other precipitation, which experts say may be caused by global warming or other environmental changes .
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