After couple of incidents, the government has waken up and is planning to better regulate and manage Mt Everest expeditions
for next season.
Though, this
year’s spring window is shut for the adventurers, the government is preparing a
report also to provide some security and regulate the climbers, as the highest
peak of the world has become more crowded in recent years posing threat to the Himalayas.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil
Aviation is planning to deploy a team of
government officials, including security officials and doctors, at the Everest
base camp due to increasing accidents and also to check unwanted climbers and their
‘unauthorised’ activities like this spring a climber used smart phone at the Mt
Everest to make a video call. On May 19, a British climber Daniel Hughes made a
‘illegal’ video call from the peak of Mt Everest to the
BBC’s studio in London using his smart phone.
Some of the veteran climbers have even asked
the government to give Mt Everest a break by short-tern climbing ban also to
protect the Himlayan climate change.
Meanwhile, the government also wants to
identify some new peaks and open for climbing – adding them to the current 326
already open peaks – that is expect to give the Mt Everest a break from a crowd.
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