ADVANTAGES Do you know how many people travel to mountain

areas of Katmandú or how many people climb to the

Mountaineers who climb Everest used to pay for sherpas to help them on their trips and climbing. The Everest base camp?
abundance of mountaineers has made this job one of the most important in some cities like Katmandú. - 2 million tourist per year travel to Katmandú
Furthermore, mountain tourism is the base of the Nepal economy. -700 mountaineers climb to the Everest base cam per year

They are very high numbers that

IMPACT OF HIGH MOUNTAIN cause this problems...
SPECULATING TOURISM
Some experts say that the high A few weeks ago I watched a climbing documentary called “Free DISADVANTAGES
acummulation of mountaineers and Solo” and that made me to want to talk about this topic. Unfortunatly, the downside is very
tourist in these aereas could affect the Climbing mountains has changed a lot in the last twenty years. different, and many mountaineers
enviroment if the situation is not Why do you think this sport has changed so much in the last climb to this high areas like Everest
changed. years? base camp and leave their garbage
How would you solve the high The main reason is the increase of the costs of the materials and there what creates large
acummulation of mountaineers trips means that only rich people are able to trip to the highest acummulations of garbage.
and tourist? mountains at the moment.
In your opinion what could reduce
the garbage problem? MY OPINION
In my opinion, they should restrict the access and a limit the number of climbers per
day. In adittion, some fines should be imposed for those who leave their garbage there,
JAIME LEBRÓN ROLDÁN
and with the money that they could earn from fines could be used to pay workers and
helicopters to take down the garbage and recycle it in the city.