The government is celebrating Mt. Everest Day from this year for the first time on May 29 to commemorate the first step by humankind on the top of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest peak.At a seminar on adventure tourism organised here today under the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) on the occasion of the First International Mt. Everest Day, discussion was held on Nepal’s tourism potential and challenges.
On the occasion, Ministry Secretary Lilamani Poudel stressed on the need to establish Nepal as the adventure tourism destination in the international arena. NTB Executive Chief Prachandman Shrestha called for celebrating adventure tourism year in 2010 to make the ambitious plan of inviting one million tourists by that year.
Tourism expert Dr. Gyanendra Ratna Tuladhar shed light on various aspects of adventure tourism.Also speaking on the occasion were Joint Secretary of the Ministry Dinesh Hari Adhikari, NTB’s Senior Director Subhash Niraula, and tourism entrepreneur Deepak Mahat. Meanwhile, the Nepali Congress has lauded the courageous and challenging feat accomplished by 77-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan of Myagdi to set a new world record of the oldest man to scale the world’s highest mountain Mt. Sagarmatha or Everest.As a member of the Senior Citizen Everest Expedition Nepal-2008, Shercha had successfully scaled the world’s tallest peak on Sunday morning.I
n a statement issued here today, the Nepali Congress has also thanked and congratulated all those who played an important role in making Sherchan’s expedition successful.
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