KATHMANDU: As many as 25 female guides have been provided rescue training to promote safe tourism.
The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and Pasang Lhamu Mountaineering Academy jointly organized the seven-day training with an objective of producing skilled human resources.
Based on the syllabus to become a ‘mountain guide’, the participants were imparted with the skills of rescuing and saving people from accidents during trekking and mountaineering.
The training was held in the Jagdol forest in Kathmandu from March 20-26 in technical assistance from the Nepal Mountaineering Instructors Association.
Academy’s President Dawa Phuto Sherpa said that the number of deaths of tourists visiting Nepal for trekking and mountaineering was increasing annually lately.
The training, thus, is expected to be fruitful to reduce the fatalities in trekking and mountaineering, President Sherpa said.
She viewed that it was necessary to organize such trainings because having unskilled and unqualified human resources in tourism sector would give a negative message.
Similarly, Board’s Senior Director Hikmat Singh Ayer pledged that the Board will give continuity to such trainings to produce skilled human resources.
He emphasized producing skilled human resources in order to fulfill the objectives of Tourism Decade (2023-2030) set by the government.
During the training, trainers made participants practice the rescuing people trapped in cliff, gorge and crevasses, taking them to safer places and providing them necessary counseling and guidance, according to trainers.
Participants included trekking guides and mountaineers, said the organizers, hoping that this training would aid them in becoming international mountain guide.
So far, Dawa Yangzum Sherpa is the only international female mountain guide in Nepal certified by the International Federation of Mountain Guides Association.
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