Saturday, April 12, 2014

29 expedition teams head for the world's highest peaks

12:48 PM

A total of 29 expedition teams have arrived Namche in Solukhumbu district till Saturday to scale the world's highest mountains in the region, including Mt Everest, this season.

Program Officer at Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), Kapindra Rai said the arrival of the expedition teams to scale Mt Everest, Mt Lhotse and Mt Nuptse is going up.

Rai shared that 22 teams would attempt to climb Mt Everest while four teams would scale Mt Lhotse and the remaining others would climb Mt Nuptse.

The expedition teams are expected to have their registration at SPCC Office in Namche before they scale up the mountains.

Likewise, Rai said that the road construction to the second camp from the first base camp of Mt Everest was completed a week ago.

The number of expedition teams is expected to further increase this year as the government has slashed the royalty to climb Mt Everest.

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