{"id":414743,"date":"2025-08-12T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=414743"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:38:26","slug":"nepal-waives-climbing-fees-on-97-mountains-to-promote-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/08\/12\/414743.html","title":{"rendered":"Nepal waives climbing fees on 97 mountains to promote tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Nepal has announced that climbing fees will be waived for 97 mountains over the next two years, in a bid to promote tourism in lesser-known Himalayan regions.<\/p>\n<p>The selected peaks, located in Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces, range in height from 5970 meters to 7132 meters.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC cited the country&#8217;s tourism department as saying the government hopes the move will draw attention to underexplored destinations and diversify the country\u2019s tourism offerings beyond popular routes.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Nepal is set to increase the climbing permit fee for Mount Everest to 15,000 dollars starting in September \u2014 the first hike in nearly ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Mountaineering remains a key source of income for Nepal, home to eight of the world&#8217;s ten highest mountains.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, climbing permits generated 5.9 million dollars in revenue, with Everest alone contributing more than 75% of that total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selected peaks, located in Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces, range in height from 5970 meters to 7132 meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":352672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-414743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414746,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414743\/revisions\/414746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414743"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=414743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}