As the highest mountain in the world Mount Everest is considered to be the greatest challenge for mountain climbers. The expensive trial of strength with nature, an indispensable source of income for the poor country of Nepal.
If the mountain will arrive climbers in the base camp of Mount Everest in Nepal, has long been prepared for everything. Dozens of aid workers of the various expeditions have established the ground leveled, tents and took care of it, that there is access to the Internet. The majority of the Luggage of the climbers this not wear. The Yaks, rugged Central Asian bovine or human carrier. So Temba Tsheri Sherpa reported it. He seems a little impressed when he talks about the logistics for a climb the 8848 meters high Mount Everest is needed.
23. In may 2001, he ascended to the age of 16 as the youngest person on the highest mountain in the world. Today, he is chief of the expedition provider’s Sherpa Khangri Outdoor a of around 25 Nepalese company, who will accompany tourists on their way to the roof of the world. You make increasingly well-established companies from Europe and the United States competition, because you want to have a bigger piece of the Everest-Boom. But it is also a risky business with the death – almost every year there are Deaths on Everest; by the end of April, the Swiss extreme mountaineer Ueli Steck arrived in the Region lost their lives.
As the first woman in the world, the Japanese climber Junko Table, reached in 1975, the summit
50,000 Euro for five minutes to the summit
Although each year only a fraction of the Nepal-tourists really to Everest opens, the mountain is developed, nevertheless, an important source of income for Nepal and its people. An average rise of cost of 40,000 to 50,000 Euro, as much as a good new car. Climbers with a high Budget are also easily Double that and more. And it comes after the tourism Ministry in the capital, Kathmandu, is still much air upward. “The Everest is by far the most popular Route in the Himalayas,” says a spokesman. “We are trying to develop an alternative to the summit for tourists. But also on the Everest.”
Thus, it contradicts the representation of many mountain climbers, the reports in the few days that the weather allows you to climb up to the summit, always jams just below the highest point of the world.
Prayer flags belong to the Buddhist Tradition in Nepal
This year, Nepal has awarded a record number of 375 licenses to climb to the Everest to tourists. Every single one of them at a cost of 11,000 US dollars (about 9800 Euro). In this way, the country has taken on its own in the high season, in April and may of this year, more than four million dollars. Add to this the hundreds of Locals that are allowed without a tourist license to climb the mountain, and often to earn money there are.
To get why there’s such a lot of money, says Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Asian Trekking, one of the largest expedition companies in the country: “Who supplied the all-round package Bay, which receives domestic flights, equipment, food for extreme heights and the oxygen supply to the same. And, of course, the Transport of the equipment, the construction of the tents and a mountain guide.”
Tengboche monastery in the Khumbu valley
Local businesses want to earn the
In the total of six to eight weeks, which is a climber in the cut with the Everest, take care of, directly and indirectly, dozens of helpers so that the customer – if anything – for a few minutes on the top of the mountain. Experienced mountaineers all season fasten about ropes and climbing AIDS in the difficult Places of the mountain and care about you. The carrier hauling the equipment between base camp and the four different altitude camps, back and forth, so that the customer can get regular ascents and descents at altitude. You take care of the construction of the tents, and often to the Board.
Up to 5000 Euro a domestic helper per season, earned when he accompanies climbers up to the summit, or loads up almost to the top. Those who work closer to the base camp, you get significantly less. Also the equipment can be very cost – different- specialty jackets are also quite a several Thousand euros expensive. Add to this the tents, shoes, crampons, and helmets. Right in the money, the oxygen, the 19 out of 20 climbers on the last 1000 meters of altitude. Together with his helpers, a mountain of it needs climbers often ten or more bottles. Every single one of them costs up to 500 euros.
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The mountain is calling!High
A trekking tour in the Himalayas – many of them adventure dreams funny mountain hikers. Ten of the 14 eight-thousanders are located in the Himalayan mountains. What will be missing on any of the mountain passes: Buddhist prayer flags. Finally, the Buddhism in the Himalayan countries of Nepal and Tibet, Bhutan and India has always been home.
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The mountain is calling!King of the Himalayas
Voilà, that’s it, the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. With its 8850 meters, he is a legend. The first ascent was in 1953 the new Zealander Edmund Hillary, together with Nepalese Tenzing Norgay. Under the professional mountain number two of the eight-thousanders, K2 in the Karakorum mountain range is increase by the way, as significantly more demanding.
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The mountain is calling!Preparation is everything
Base camp on the Khumbu glacier. Here Everest gather aspirants. After all, even at 5350 meters in height. Now there is to Acclimatize. Also the Super professional extreme athletes can’t get past it. The air is always rising thinner and thinner, the higher you go. And that can be dangerous to life, because our lungs are not as used to the lack of oxygen.
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The mountain is calling!Step-by-step
It doesn’t have to be the Everest. How about the Route of the Annapurna? The trekking tour around the Annapurna mountain range is also for Hobby-Trekking-tourists feasible. Provided, of course, has condition, is acclimatized and brings with it time – about three weeks s. take Almost always the Sherpas, so the Nepalese mountain guides.
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The mountain is calling!Nothing for scaredy-cats
Adrenaline rush guaranteed: The crevasse in the Khumbu icefall is considered to be extremely dangerous. Here are Can and the right equipment required. Each season it comes to deadly accidents in the Himalayas: By falls in kletsch columns, avalanches, altitude sickness, rockfall, Freeze to death. The tragic recent death: The Swiss professional mountaineer Ueli Steck. Why he crashed is unclear.
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The mountain is calling!The highest garbage mountain in the world
Thousands of climbers flock every year to the Himalayas. On Mount Everest has long since developed a kind of mass tourism. A sad side-effect: piles of trash cluttering up the nature of the gas stove up to the sun cream. Unfortunately, all do not keep long to the Golden mountain rule: What you take up must back down.
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The mountain is calling!Tourism on the roof of the world
Most of the Trekking tourists from the start of Nepal. For the Land of the mountain tourism is an important source of income. Even if the expensive Himalayan expeditions are usually carried out by international suppliers, without the Nepalese Sherpas, it would not be possible. After the devastating earthquake of 2015, Nepal needs tourism now also to the building. So, nothing like in the mountains!
According to the Nepalese authorities, there are likely to be on the Everest in the future growing stream of visitors. Indirectly, tourism provides for 1.4 billion euros revenue in Nepal – about 7.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). With more than 900,000 people and more than six percent of the work life is also population, directly or indirectly, from tourism. In the next ten years, both Figures are expected to rise significantly.
Stefan wall (dpa)