The Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation today recommended stern action against celebrated climber Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja and his company - Elite Exped- for violating mountaineering rules of the country.
The Department of Tourism has started issuing mountaineering permits for the spring mountaineering season.
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KATHMANDU, MARCH 26: The Department of Tourism has started issuing mountaineering permits for the spring mountaineering season. A total of 33 people have already taken permission to climb four different mountains to date, according to the Director of the Adventure Tourism and Mountaineering Branch of the Department, Rakesh Gurung. Among them, one is permitted for […]
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KATHMANDU, August 14: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Jeevan Ram Shrestha has said that the government has taken forward a plan to open unclimbed peaks for mountaineering.
KATHMANDU: The Department of Tourism (DoT) has given 342 people of 13 mountaineering teams, including four cleaning teams, the permission for this year’s spring mountaineering. According to the Department, 342 people got permission from the Department till Monday. One can apply for mountaineering permission till May 14. The DoT informed that among the people allowed […]
ITAHARI, September 14: NMA is unique name in itself in Nepal's mountaineering spectrum. However, there are two separate organizations with the abbreviation of NMA. The first one is Nepal Mountaineering Association. The first and only alpine club of Nepal was officially established on 1 November 1973.
Nepal Mountaineering Association has been running national and international level mountaineering related training and skills programs in Nepal. It has also established two famous mountaineering landmarks including Pokhara's International Mountain Museum, which was established on 5 February 2004, and International Mountaineers Memorial Park of Kakani, foundation stone laying ceremony for which was held on 28 May 1998.
Another NMA stands for Nepal Mountain Academy. Unlike Nepal Mountaineering Association, Nepal Mountain Academy is purely government entity formally instituted on 30 May 2002 under the aegis of Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation. NMA has 140 hectares of area at Garma of Solukhumbu and has academic complex at Thapagaun, Bijulibajar of Kathmandu. According to Lakhpa Phuti Sherpa, the President of NMA said NMA aims to build Tourism University in the distant future at Garma.
NMA has turbocharged Nepal's academic mountaineering and training. It has initiated many pioneering academic courses and training packages not only in Nepal but also in the world.
World's first university level course in mountaineering
NMA is the first institute in the world to run university level academic mountaineering course with practical exposures. It got affiliation from the meeting of the Executive Council of Tribhuvan University on 24 January 2018 for Bachelor of Mountaineering Studies (BMS). NMA started to run Bachelor of Mountaineering Studies (BMS) from October 2018.
There are 110 students, including 10 female students, studying BMS at NMA. Yearly intake quota for BMS is 30.
According to Uttam Babu Bhattarai, the Spokesperson and Information Officer at NMA. An author of travel essay titled, Aaha Himal, NMA has allotted 30 seats for each batch of BMS. The eight-semester BMS fee for Nepali is Rs. 600,000. The same fee for SAARC and foreign students is Rs. 800,000 and Rs. 1,200,000 respectively. This nascent course has not attracted students from abroad, though. However, for Nepali youngsters, BMS has fulfilled their long-cherished dream. Pranjal Pokharel, 23, hails from Nepal's southern plain Terai and had not seen mountain in his childhood. However, this seventh semester student of BMS, has joined this course to live his dream.
''I simply wanted to wander through various parts of Nepal and want to know men and mountains'', said Pokharel, ''This is what brought me here.'' Pokharel has been to the base camp of Mardi Himal and even have climbed little known Diji Diri peak of Mustang.
Nepal's first masters program in adventure tourism
NMA also holds its title as the pioneering institute in Nepal to run master program in adventure tourism sector. On 9 December 2019 another meeting of the Executive Council of Tribhuvan University granted affiliation of MATS i.e. Master of Adventure Tourism Studies (MATS). From January 2020, MATS classes are operational. As of the ongoing academic colander of 2021, total students studying MATS are 35 including 9 female students.
MATS fee for Nepali, SAARC and foreign students is Rs. 400,000, Rs. 600,000 and Rs. 800,000 respectively. Total yearly quota for MATS is 35 seats.
First institute to train and guide civil servant to scale Everest
Nepal's Prime Minister Tanka Prashad Acharya introduced first Civil Service Act in 1956.
Before five years on 15 June 1951, Public Service Commission came into existence to recruit civil servants. Despite decades of their service as civil servant in Nepal, Nepal's civil servants had not scaled Everest until 2011. On 18 May 2011, NMA-trained and guided 9 civil servants scaled Everest first the first time. It was a historic achievement for Nepal's civil servants. For this feat, 15 civil servants were trained and guided by NMA. They were selected among many aspirants. In Nepal's Everest Measurement of 2019 also, NMA instructor Tshiring Jabgbu Sherpa was the Sherpa guide for summit observation led by Surveyor Khimlal Gautam. The summit observation was made on 22 May 2019.
Pioneer of female trekking guide trainings and other trainings
NMA introduced female trekking guide training for the first time in Nepal. It has produced 291 female trekking guides and 1,890 male trekking guides. As of September, total trained people of liaison officer training for mountaineering, ski, mountain safety and security training and high altitude training are 960, 116, 80 and 451 respectively.
For ski programmes, trainees are regularly taken to the Switzerland for further training.
For the exploration of new peaks, rock-climbing venues and other adventurous avenues, NMA is doing its best, said the Spokesperson and the Information Officer, Uttam Babu Bhattarai.
In academic and research field, NMA published two separate volumes of 'Voice of Himalaya' and 'Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures'. So far, three volumes of Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures and eight editions of Voice of Himalaya has been published featuring dozens of research works and creative articles including authors both from Nepal and abroad.
KATHMANDU, Sep 1: Nepal on Tuesday started issuing permits for climbing Himalayan mountains inside the country in the fall season by allowing two teams to scale Mt. Manaslu, the world's eighth tallest peak at 8,163 meters.
Two groups comprising a combined 25 members received the first permits for the fall season that begins in September, the Department of Tourism said in a press statement.
One group has 15 members, with ten male and five female climbers, while the other has 10 male members, according to the department.
Most mountaineers usually visit Nepal to summit the Himalayan mountains in the spring, but a few of them also try their luck in the fall.
Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition, an expedition company in Nepal, is organizing the climb for the 15-member team.
Company director Mingma Gyalje Sherpa told Xinhua 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 added that the team would start moving toward Mt. Manaslu after all expedition members have quarantined for ten days in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital.
The Department of Tourism issued permits for eight teams representing 58 climbers to climb five peaks in the fall season last year. In the spring season this year, a total of 633 climbers and their supporting staff scaled six mountains, including Mt. Qomolangma, the world's tallest at 8848.86 meters, according to the department.
As the spring mountaineering season draws closer, the Department of Tourism (DoT) has introduced 11 new rules that it claims are aimed at managing mountaineering-related activities.
