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NEWS: Everest: Fewer Climbers = Bigger Fees?

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 Jack Geldard 26 Jun 2008
This week China announced that it may limit the number of tourists on and around Mt. Everest next year, ostensibly for environmental reasons. "We need to limit the number of people who want to climb Mt. Everest, who exert a negative impact on the environment," Zhang Yongze, the director of Tibet's Bureau of Environmental Protection, said to China's Xinhua news agency. "We will also need to strengthen management of commercial activities involving (the mountain). We don't want so many visitors to disturb the peak."

Writes Dougald MacDonald.

Read More: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=06&year=2008#n44982
 Toby S 26 Jun 2008
In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

Will that not mean that more people try to climb from the Nepal side and just make the existing problems there even worse?
 Tom Briggs 26 Jun 2008
In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

This doesn't make sense:

"Another possible explanation for restricting numbers on Everest: supply and demand. The Chinese may be hoping to raise peak fees again by limiting the number of permits."

You mean the Chinese may limit the number of permits and raise the cost of the peak fee?

I'm sure the peak fees will go up, whether or not they'll actually restrict the number of climbers will remain to be seen!
 Silum 26 Jun 2008
China!!!? China of all freaking places wants to limit usage because of environmental reasons? Like they give a crap about the environment...please.
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