KATHMANDU: A total of 75 expedition teams have been granted mountain climbing permits for this spring, the Department of Tourism has said.
The Department has so far collected a royalty over Rs 450 million through the permits.
The teams acquiring climbing permits for 20 mountain peaks comprise 667 members, it said. Among the teams, a total of 31 consisting of 339 members are set to scale the Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, this season.
The Department said that the climbers have started flocking the destinations adding that the number of climbers is likely to go up this time.
It should be noted that in spring last year, the Department had collected a total of Rs. 412.88 million in royalty from mountain climbing permits issued to 107 expedition teams.
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