Expedition in Tibet >> Expedition Royalties

Government of Nepal has recently restructured climbing Royalties in order to stimulate climbing tourism with the objective to make climbing/mountaineering royalty competitive with neighbouring counties, to promote mountain climbing in remote locations and to encouragemountaineering/climbing all year round. This enacted the following changes in permit fee structure:
Permit fee was discounted to 50% for autumn expeditions and to 25% for winter and summer expeditions;

Maximum number of expedition members allowed per expedition was increased from 12 to 15;
Incremental royalty system was implemented, whereby royalty fee is proportional to number of expedition members replacing previous flat fee per expedition.

 

1 Person:	US$ 25,000.00
2 Persons:	US$ 40,000.00
3 Persons:	US$ 48,000.00
4 Persons:	US$ 56,000.00
5 Persons:	US$ 60,000.00
6 Persons:	US$ 66,000.00
7 Persons:	US$ 70,000.00
Additional member (upto 12 person), Per person	US$ 10,000.

 

Garbage Deposit for Expedition:
Effective from “1992" the Ministry of Tourism has fixed the price of the deposit for the management of garbage's by each mountaineering team who tries to climb any peak are as follows :
* Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) US $ 4,000
* Other peaks above 8000 meter US $ 3,000
* All peaks less than 8000 meters US $ 2,000

Mt. Cho-Oyu climbing fee halved
The government has reduced climbing fee by 50 percent for ascending 8,201-metre high Mt. Cho-Oyu for five years (from December 1, 2004 to November 30, 2009) in a bid to encourage mountaineers to use Nepali route while scaling the mountain.

A mountaineering expedition team with seven members had to pay the royalty of US$ 10,000 to climb the Mt. Cho- Oyu. Mountaineers have been using the Tibetan route to climb Mt. Cho-Oyu for sometimes. The Golden Jubilee of the first ascent Mt. Cho-Oyu was observed on October 19, 2004. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation had decided to mark the golden jubilees of the eight thousanders following the success of the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of Mt. Everest in 2003 which had immensely helped boost Nepal’s mountaineering tourism in the international market.

EXPEDITION PERMIT:
To obtain an expedition permit from the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation the following documents should be submitted.
# Application form.
# Members Bio-Data with photo.
# Endorsement of the National Alpine Club and if in case there is no alpine club, the endorsement of the Government of the respective country of the members of the Mountaineering Team.
# Map and or photograph of the mountain indicating the climbing route.
# Payment Procedure for Expedition:
# An advance of 30% is required when booking the Expedition.
# Further payment of 60% is required 30 days before the departure of the Expedition.
# The remaining balance has to be paid in Kathmandu before the departure of the Expedition.
# The Royalties should be paid maximum 2 months before the climbing permit will be issued.
# This Royalty is not refundable in case of cancellation.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
This registration fee is not refundable in case of cancellation. Cancellations are only accepted until 60 days before departure. Charges are calculated according to the Expenditures done for each Expedition.