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58 Climbers From India Look To Scale Mount Everest And Other Nepal Peaks This Spring: Report

Nepal govt has, as of April 24, given permits to 302 climbers looking to summit Mount Everest this climbing season. In all, permits issued to 108 teams that sought to climb 25 peaks across the country

By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 27 Apr 2022 01:20 PM (IST)

58 Climbers From India Look To Scale Mount Everest And Other Nepal Peaks This Spring: Report 58 Climbers From India Look To Scale Mount Everest And Other Nepal Peaks This Spring: Report

Nepal government has, as of April 24, 2022, issued permits to 230 male and 72 female climbers vying to scale Mount Everest this season. ( Image Source :Getty )

New Delhi: More than 300 mountaineers are looking to summit Mount Everest from the Nepal side this spring climbing season. The Nepal government has so far issued permits to 230 male and 72 female climbers vying to scale the world's highest peak this season, Nepal media reported.

Nepal’s Department of Tourism has issued a total of 876 permits — 685 male and 191 female — for this spring to scale various mountains and peaks of the country, up from 723 permits issued last season, The Himalayan Times reported.

While the highest number of permits (302) have been issued for Mt Everest, the rest have been allotted for peaks, such as Mt Lhotse, Mt Amadablam, Mt Kanchenjunga, Mt Nuptse, Mt Makalu and others.

As of April 24, according to the news report cited above, permits were issued to a total of 108 teams who are looking to climb 25 mountains and peaks across the country this spring. As many as 58 climbers are from India.

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The report said the tourism department has earned over Rs 448.09 million in royalties from the permits, of which Rs 378.06 million was collected just from the permits for Mt Everest.

Quoting the department, the report said the highest numbers of climbers this spring are from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom. Climbers have come from 72 different countries this year. While 132 climbers — 105 and 27 female — have arrived in Nepal from the US so far, as many as 105 climbers are from the United Kingdom.

Besides the 58 climbers from India, there are 47 mountaineers from France, 34 from Canada, 29 from Australia, 25 from Spain, 24 from Germany, and 22 from China, the report said. Among the total climbers are 28 from Russia too. Besides, a total of 62 Nepali climbers have also been given permits this year.

According to the report, Nepal issued climbing permits for 16 peaks only last spring, and collected over Rs 530.67 million in royalties. As many as 394 climbers had been issued permits to scale Everest then.