Nepal has announced a 36% increase in the price of permits to climb Everest, bringing the price of a single permit to $15,000 per person. An attempt to curb the ever-increasing number of requests for climbing permits. Will this be enough to avoid high altitude queues? Nothing is less certain.
All prices go up, and so does Everest. Nepal has just announced that it will be increasing the price of the climbing permit for Everest from the current $11,000 per person to $15,000. “We have proposed a new fee of $15,000 per person for a foreigner, which will be implemented by early 2025,” explains a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism, as reported by the Kathmandu Post, this, says the newspaper, in a bid to streamline mountain tourism and control the number of climbers, against the backdrop of persistent complaints about the growing number of deaths on the world’s