Adventure Sports Asia Expo (ASEA) 2018 that was held during January 27-29, 2018 stood as a great platform for promoting Nepal’s potential as a global destination for adventure tourism.

“The three-day expo provided a platform for promotion of Nepal as the ultimate adventure destination, in getting in touch with adventure tour buyers and sellers in the region and in providing latest updates of Nepal’s adventure tourism segment,” said an official release.

ASEA 2018 saw the participation of seven firms representing from Nepali tourism industry and key officials of Nepal Tourism Board, Nepal Airlines and Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Nepal Chapter.

Nepal is well-known for adventurous sports such mountaineering, white water rafting, jungle safari, bungee jumping, paragliding, canyoning, zip flyer, Heli skiing, among others.

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The country has world’s famous trekking trails such as Annapurna Circuit Trekking, Everest Base Camp Trek, among various others.

The country also hosts various extreme adventurous and trekking sports such as mountaineering, mountain biking, rafting, high altitude marathon, paragliding, bungee jumping, among others. The Karnali River in Simikot is famous for kayaking sport and most of the upstream Nepali rivers enthuse with white-water rafting.

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The Academy, under the Tribhuvan University (TU) Nepal, is the first such college in the world offering academic course in mountaineering.

The college has been offering Bachelors in Mountaineering course since it received accreditation from TU on February 7, 2017 and is currently planning to offer post graduate course in Masters of Adventure Tourism soon.

The college, that has been running its classes at Satdobato, is now moving to Solukhumbu, where the instituted has a well-built infrastructure of international standards.

According to TU administrators, the institute has potential to attract foreign students as well and can offer highly-skilled training courses that can contribute to the development of mountain tourism in the country.

“An academic course in mountaineering and other adventure sports was inevitable in the country. We have now established a college that will not only produce human resources for mountain tourism but also convert the whole mountain range into economic powerhouse of the country,” says Educationalist and the academic adviser of the college Ramesh Raj Kunwar.

According to Ridish Kumar Pokharel, Executive Director at the Office of the Planning Directorate (TU), the academy will offer a sound knowledge on the mountaineering and other adventure sports.

Students will have to climb 6,000-7,000 meter tall mountains as part of their assignment in the final semester of the course.

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