(28 May 2025)
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Kathmandu, Nepal – 27 May 2025
1. Nepal’s government ministers posing for photos with Mount Everest climbers
2. Climbers from India posing for photos
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Badri Prasad Pandey, Nepal’s tourism minister: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT2&4++
"Let me assure you that the government is strongly committed to supporting mountaineering in every possible way by keeping climbers safe, by protecting the natural beauty of our peaks and by helping local communities grow alongside the spirit of adventure."
4. Prasad Pandey honouring climbers
5. Various of participants applauding
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adriana Brownlee, mountaineer: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT7++
“The biggest kind of issues or concerns that we’re having at the moment is probably the overcrowding, so the amount of people that are on the mountain. And it can be controlled but what we need to do is to make sure that those amounts of people are all experienced in the mountaineering world so that, you know, if they are struggling, if they are on their own and something happens they know how to save themselves.”
7. Prasad Pandey honouring climbers
8. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Purnima Shrestha, mountaineer: ++SOUNDBITE IS PARTIALLY BY SHOT9++
“It has become too commercialized, and the feeling is that if there is money then Everest can be climbed. But not all the people there are physically and emotionally ready to climb the peak, that is being disrespectful to Everest. This is the reason why there are all these traffic jams on the way to the peak."
9. Various of women playing traditional trumpets before beginning of meet
STORYLINE:
Nepal’s government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region’s summits, especially Everest.
"The government is strongly committed to supporting mountaineering in every possible way by keeping climbers safe, by protecting the natural beauty of our peaks and by helping local communities grow alongside the spirit of adventure," Nepal’s tourism minister Badri Prasad Pandey said.
He was speaking in Kathmandu at a gathering of about 100 climbers from around the world who have successfully tackled Mount Everest.
The one-day conference, dubbed the Everest Summiteers Summit, involved discussions on how to protect climbers and the environment.
Attendees expressed concern on the rising numbers of people who crowd Everest to try to scale the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak.
Veterans have complained how the mountains is becoming crowded and dirty.
Climbers normally spend weeks at base camp to acclimatize to the higher altitude. They make practice runs to the lower camps on Everest before beginning their final attempt on the peak.
Nepal’s government last year funded a team of soldiers and Sherpas to remove 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during the climbing season.
Nepal doesn’t have rules on how many days climbers must spend acclimatizing or making practice climbs.
The permits to climb Everest, which cost $11,000 each, are valid for 90 days.
Climbing season normally wraps up by the end of May, when the weather deteriorates and monsoon season begins.
Mount Everest was conquered in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay.
Since then it has been climbed thousands of times and every year hundreds more attempt to reach the summit.
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