Nepal, which houses 8 of the highest mountain peaks in the world, has started issuing permits for climbing the Himalayan mountains in this autumn season.

On Tuesday, the Tourism Department has issued mountaineering permits to two groups, the first permit of the Autumn expedition season that starts in September.

According to the Department of Tourism, one expedition group has 15 members, while the other has 10 members. The teams are set to scale Mt. Manaslu, the world’s eighth tallest peak at 8,163 meters.

The DoT has collected a total of NPR 2.646 million as royalty from the climbers.

Expedition company ‘Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition’ is organizing the climb for the 15-member team.

Company director Mingma Gyalje Sherpa said that a Chinese climber would lead the expedition team.

“There are two climbers from China and other climbers from different countries,” Sherpa said. “The Chinese climber who is leading the team had climbed Mt. Lhotse in the spring season but stayed in Nepal due to flight restrictions amid the second wave of COVID-19 in Nepal.”

He also informed that the expedition team will start their summit to Mt. Manaslu after all the members have completed their quarantine for ten days in Kathmandu.

Usually, most mountaineers summit the Himalayan mountains in spring season, but a few try their luck in autumn season also.

In the last autumn season, the DoT has issued climbing permits for eight teams comprising 58 mountaineers to climb five peaks.

In spring season this year, a total of 633 mountaineers and their supporting staff scaled six peaks, including Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest at 8848.86 meters.

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As the five dead climbers including South Koreans headed home last week, various mountaineers and Nepali officials met at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu to offer tributes to the deceased.

During the meet, officials urged the Government of Nepal to set up early weather warning systems to avoid loss of lives during such natural disasters.

Every time there is a disaster on the mountain, we all seek ways to prevent these deaths, but soon we forget about it. We are going to ask the government to install equipment to warn about weather conditions on the mountain – Santa Bir Lama, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association

Lama went on to say there are some warning systems already but focused only on Mount Everest.

Nepal Parliament member Rajendra Prasad Gautam stepped ahead to take this forward.

“I am going take the initiative and demand with the government to install these weather warning systems on smaller mountains,” said Gajendra.

This disaster is being considered as the worst such incident on Nepali mountains since 2015, the year that saw deaths of around 19 climbers at the Everest Base Camp.

Hope the government would consider officials’ recommendations and takes necessary measures to address concerns of the mountaineering community.

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