Kathmandu:
The Nepal government has increased the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest or Mount Qomolangma. An official provided this information on Wednesday. The climbing fee for foreigners was increased from $11,000 to $15,000, an increase of 36 percent.

Madhav Adhikari, an official in the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, said, “The new rate will be effective from September 1, 2025.” “Those who want to climb Mount Qomolangma this spring will not have to pay increased fees,” he told Xinhua.

Now I will have to pay so much

Meanwhile, those planning to climb the world’s highest peak, located between Nepal and China, will have to pay $7,500 instead of $5,500 in the autumn season. The fee for winter and monsoon season has increased from $2,750 to $3,750.

For Nepali climbers, the fee has doubled from 75,000 Nepali rupees (about $545) to 150,000 rupees (about $1,090). Nepal last revised mountaineering permit fees on January 1, 2015.

Mount Everest, locally known as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma, is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. Its altitude (snow height) is 8,848.86 metres, which was recently established by Chinese and Nepalese authorities in 2020.

Mount Everest attracts many climbers, including highly experienced climbers. It has two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the south-east in Nepal (known as the ‘Standard Route’) and the other from the north in Tibet. There are no major technical challenges to climbing the standard route, although Everest does have risks such as altitude sickness, weather and wind, as well as avalanches and the Khumbu Icefall.

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