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Nepal slashes fees to climb mount Everest

Nepal will slash climbing fees for Everest and other Himalayan peaks to attract more mountaineers. Specially the government will cut license fees for foreign individuals but, the fees for group expeditions to Everest will go up.

Before, with the past rules, there were many people who went up but not all of them equally competent. Also, this format hampered the rescue efforts.

The government hopes that the new measure would help to increase the number of climbers. They really need that because Everest is a key revenue earner for the country.

 Hundreds of climbers scale Nepal’s more than 100 peaks every year and Everest alone contributes $3 million to the country annually.

Before reading that piece of news I had never thought that you must pay to go up Everest. Anyway, nowadays you must pay to do whatever so that doesn't surprise me too much.

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