KATHMANDU:
Nepal’s Department of Tourism announced on March 29 that it has issued the first climbing permit for Mt. Everest for the upcoming spring season.
As per reports, a nine-member team comprising US, Australian and Canadian climbers received the permit on March 27 for climbing the 8848.86-metre-high mountain.
April to May is the main season to summit the Himalayan mountains inside Nepal in particular Everest.
“Two more teams are expected to receive climbing permits on March 29,” Bhisma Raj Bhattarai, a section officer at the mountaineering section of the department.
The department was expecting over 300 climbers to receive permits to climb the tallest mountain in the world in spring, said Bhattarai.
He also added, “After the Russia-Ukraine war, our expectation is that there won’t be fewer than 250 expedition members to receive permits.”
In spring last year, a record high of 408 climbing permits were issued from the Nepali side despite the Covid-19 pandemic. IANS