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]]>The 30th Annual Rafting Festival 2018 held under the theme ‘Let’s Protect our Rivers for Tourism and Environment’ witnessed more than 400 local and foreign participants.
As part of the festival, an annual white-water rafting was organized at the Benighat-Phisling section of Trishuli River, 40 km away from Kathmandu.
“Being enriched with water resources, Nepal has a huge prospect for water adventures. Thus, through this event, we aim to promote water adventure rafting which highly contributes to the country’s tourism,” said Shiva Adhikari, general secretary of Nepal Association of Rafting Agencies (NARA), an umbrella organization of rafting agencies that organized the event.
Besides tourism promotion, the festival was also aimed at protecting and preserving the rivers across Nepal for environmental conservation.
Sharing his experience about the festival, Sujata Bhattarai, a health professional and one of the festival participants said, “It was my first time and I enjoyed paddling along with the water waves. It’s an amazing experience.”
On the occasion, NARA pitched for the Nepal’s status as the best destination for adventurous water tourism.
Among various other adventure sports such as cannoning, kayaking and stand-up paddle, Nepal has a special place for rafting because of a good number of river bodies across the country.
While there are nearly 6000 big and small rivers across the country, 16 big rivers including Trishuli, Kali Gandaki, Sunkoshi, Bhotekoshi and Karnali, among others allow river rafting under government’s approval.
Nepali rafting industry has around 65 river rafting agencies and nearly 1,500 rafting guides.
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]]>This spring season which ended on May 31, witnessed the fourth highest number of successes with a total of 445 climbers reaching the summit of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. Of them 190 were foreigners, 223 mountain guides and 32 fee paying Nepalese climbers.
In 2016, 451 people including 197 foreigners climbed the Everest. Over 5,000 climbers have successfully reached the summit of Everest since Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first scaled the world’s tallest mountain in 1953.
Until now, 5,324 climbers summited the 8,848 metre peak. Five people have lost their lives on the mountain during this season while many people had to come back as powerful winds obstructed them from climbing at the end of the season, according to an official at the Department of Tourism.
The climbing of the Mt. Everest was closed for two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015 because of fatal avalanches. Then in 2015, 19 people dies due to earth quake triggered avalanches. Not a single climb was made in 2015.
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