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Nepal Hikes Fee for Everest Climbers
Mint Kolkata
|January 23, 2025
Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world's tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said.
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Income from permit fees and other spending by foreign climbers is a key source of revenue and employment for the cash-strapped nation, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains,
Dit verhaal komt uit de January 23, 2025-editie van Mint Kolkata.
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