Nepal is set to implement stringent new regulations for climbers seeking to summit Mount Everest, in a move that has been widely discussed among the climbing community. Under the proposed law ...

Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country settled between China and India, is regularly hailed as the extreme goal for t ...

Turns out experience matters and for Nepal it looks like 7,000 meters. In a bold move aimed at improving safety and reducing the deadly traffic jams on Mount Everest, Nepal is drafting a new law ...

In a significant step toward ensuring safety and sustainability, Nepal is planning to restrict Mount Everest expeditions to only those climbers who have previously scaled a peak above 7,000 metres.

And he does so from Ground Zero of the argument: the giant spray painted rock at Mount Everest Base Camp ... gave its own title to the peak: Sagarmatha, which translates to “head in the great ...

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s 7,000-meter (22,965 ft) peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at ...

The Everest region recorded the arrival of 694 tourists on Monday alone, according to the Sagarmatha National Park Office in Namche ... Agencies' Association of Nepal. "The region is finally ...

Arriving on Mount ... Everest's most experienced foreign guides, leading one of the very first commercial expeditions to the summit in 1992, and four more times since. He's also unconvinced that ...

With Mount Everest standing at a mighty 29,032 feet ... Also, helicopter flights in the region are heavily restricted. Sagarmatha National Park, where the mountain is situated, is a World Heritage ...

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Around the same time, Raj Bikram, CEO of Airlift Nepal, was in touch with the Khumbu municipality for 3D-mapping Mount Everest ... with the Sagarmatha (Nepal’s name for Everest) Pollution ...