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Nepal's Government Looks to Tighten the Rules Around Who Can Climb Mt Everest

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A Wanaka-based adventure consultant says she agrees that anyone wanting to climb Mount Everest should have previously summited a 7000 metre high mountain at least once.

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A new law could prohibit inexperienced climbers from climbing Mount Everest. The initiative, which still needs to be discussed, would ask mountaineers to...

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The government is taking the measure to limit the growing number of tourists on the world's highest mountain.

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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The onslaught of mount-everest conquerors has intensified in the past few years to such an extent that the authorities in Nepal are now pulling the draw line. A new tourism law requires the mountaineers, among other things, that they have already climbed a seven-thousander in Nepal before they dare to climb Mount Everest. Thus, inexperienced people are to be kept away from the highest mountain in the world.

·Vienna, Austria
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ORF.at News broke the news in Vienna, Austria on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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