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Peak Fitness Required: Amateur Climbers Will Be Banned From Trying to Scale Mount Everest

The bill aims to enhance climber experience and safety by requiring a prior 7,000m climb and replacing a $4,000 garbage deposit with a fund supporting mountain cleaning and workers.

Summary by Irish Independent
Amateur climbers are set to be banned from scaling Mount Everest under a new law to deter influencers and overcrowding.

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Irish IndependentIrish Independent
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Peak fitness required: Amateur climbers will be banned from trying to scale Mount Everest

Amateur climbers are set to be banned from scaling Mount Everest under a new law to deter influencers and overcrowding.

·Ireland
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Anadolu AjansıAnadolu Ajansı
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Why Nepal is moving to bar novice climbers from Everest

Nepal aims to restrict inexperienced climbers as overcrowding, traffic jams and preventable deaths raise safety alarms on the world’s highest peak - Anadolu Ajansı

·Ankara, Türkiye
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The Straits TimesThe Straits Times
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Nepal mulls over stricter safety rules for Everest climbers

Industry insiders say some foreign mountaineers are ill-prepared for what is a major test of endurance. Read more at straitstimes.com.

·Singapore
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Nepal Plans Stricter Rules for Mount-Everest Bribery

Every year hundreds of people dare to climb Mount Everest. Again and again alpinists are killed on the highest mountain in the world. Nepal is now planning stricter admission rules, mandatory health certificates and new environmental requirements.

·Germany
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Nepal Wants to Tighten Conditions for Climbers to Climb Everest

Nepal has proposed a bill to strengthen the eligibility criteria for the Everest ascent. It could be asked of the contenders to have already climbed a peak of at least 7,000 m in altitude in the country.

·Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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L'ÉQUIPE broke the news in Boulogne-Billancourt, France on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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