Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said https://reut.rs/3E6SLTO
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raising permit fees for climbing mount everest is a regressive decision that will disproportionately affect low-income climbers and locals, not a solution to nepal's economic woes.
1: There is an estimated 50 tons of trash and 200 dead bodies on Everest. It is an environmental catastrophe to the extent that local watersheds are contaminated.
2: Climbing Everest (a completely unnecessary activity) costs at least $40k. There ARE no “low income” Everest visitors.
People should instead sign up for Clean Everest missions. Then they can brag, On my expedition, my team carried out 200kg of trash.
Or something like that.
Sure is hard thinking of a solution that doesn’t require flying an airliner to a faraway country, isn’t it?
It isn’t just about the trash. It’s about the everything. It needs to stop and we need to figure something else out. We as a species need to grow the fuck up, and we need to do it yesterday
trash, feces, and even bodies. Most of the people going aren't really prepared.
Set up helicopter tours a mile out. Raise the fees and the pay for sherpas, and set up medical requirements to reduce the number of unprepared tourists.
That's unfortunate. Increasing permit fees will disproportionately affect low-income and minority mountaineers, stifling diversity and accessibility to the mountain.
I was in Nepal last year and I saw the devastation in the Everest Base Camp - on video.
I avoided going there.
Few people know, that you can reach Everest Base Camp by bus from the Chinese side.
Going to Annapurna is much better wrt ecological footprint.
Good! It's about time! The Nepalese government needs more regulations on Everest, as well as more money, to help pay for all the workers that they need to climb the mountain and bring down all that trash! Not too mention, the sherpas are severely underpaid for the risks that they take.
Personally, I would like to see a stop to it completely.
At the very least, it should cost enough to cover the clean-up of the mountain ⛰️
Why isn't it protected from littering? Damaged just so someone can say that they climbed it. #EcoBeforeEgo
Protect the planet 🙏 ❤️
It's funny to see all the knee-jerk reactions about this. It's obvious almost nobody has bothered to see what it did cost and what it will cost.
A drop in the bucket. Calm down
Good, it's only rich schmucks who can afford to climb it and they trash it whilst doing it. I say add a zero to that percentage, make it eye wateringly high and get them to contribute to the local communities significantly more. They want it, they should pay for it
They should requirecevery climber to bring some amount of trashes down when they are returning. Each kilo of those would give some sum return from the entrance fee.
The only people climbing Everest at this point are ultra-wealthy individuals with an ego that requires them to climb a mountain to feel important with no regard to the damage their actions might have on local communities and individuals.
You are more than welcome to read my more than 15 research papers on tourism impacts in the Mt Everest region - the latest one was published just a month ago. Https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412542
When are they going to introduce a philosophy test? E.G.-- How do you think you'll feel when you conquer the mountain?-- ( Any answer other than " What the fuck are you on about?" is an immediate fail.)
On one hand this is good to reduce the insane amount of clutter and congestion on the mountain; on the other hand it means only the very rich will get to climb and makes it harder for the less wealthy who want to be able to do it. Should just do a random lottery with limited spots each year.
Nepal should protect Everest as a national treasure instead of being blind and profiting from wealthy climbers. I can only imagine how much trash is up in those base camps and mountain. Again money over conscience.
Excellent news! I still argue that it needs to be 65%. If you want to climb it you’ll have to pay out the nose & carry your own💩 back down off the mountain. You don’t ~need~ to be there.
Ppl won’t be able to afford it, which is the idea. It costs around $80k US now. It really should be $260k, considering the sacrifice they’re asking of the families of the Sherpa to make for their little pet project. If he dies hauling your gear up the mountain, his family is w/o a breadwinner now.
i'm saying like. it's so cold that the bodies just Stay There instead of degrading. it's not just that they die it's also that their corpses become part of the Everest landscape to the point that distinct figures become memes/landmarks. it's gross morally and aesthetically
Climbing Everest is a stupid activity.
Expensive, pointless, redundant, and replete with trash.
If you can't leave the place looking better than you found it, stay home.
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Get the f**k off it.
You ants
Just ban all climbs except for scientific research teams
Respect the mountain for a change
This would pay for cleanup and removal of all the bodies.
2: Climbing Everest (a completely unnecessary activity) costs at least $40k. There ARE no “low income” Everest visitors.
Or something like that.
It isn’t just about the trash. It’s about the everything. It needs to stop and we need to figure something else out. We as a species need to grow the fuck up, and we need to do it yesterday
Set up helicopter tours a mile out. Raise the fees and the pay for sherpas, and set up medical requirements to reduce the number of unprepared tourists.
I avoided going there.
Few people know, that you can reach Everest Base Camp by bus from the Chinese side.
Going to Annapurna is much better wrt ecological footprint.
#Wanderlust #Adventure
At the very least, it should cost enough to cover the clean-up of the mountain ⛰️
Why isn't it protected from littering? Damaged just so someone can say that they climbed it. #EcoBeforeEgo
Protect the planet 🙏 ❤️
A drop in the bucket. Calm down
I'd love a ban, but Nepal can't afford that. They have very limited economic opportunities.
Expensive, pointless, redundant, and replete with trash.
If you can't leave the place looking better than you found it, stay home.