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Hired-guide Required for Hiking In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 7, 2012: according to the news posted on the huffingtonpost.com, the Government of Nepal made it mandatory for any hikers to hire a licensed guide for going on hiking in Nepal beginning in September of this year.
The government must have done so in view of independent individual hikers getting lost and then ultimately finding them dead. Recently, more than one case of hikers got lost and then found dead or killed had been recorded. However, Nepal also had the cases of individual hikers getting lost for weeks and then ultimately rescued from a cave or from the spot of unable to move around.
Hikers in a group need to have a licensed guide to trek in Nepal. Everest climbers even need to be accompanied by one government official.
However, this is the first time the government of Nepal has made it mandatory for the individual hikers to have a guide. It will add to the cost of hikers and it might be considered as even an assault on the privacy of hikers. Some hikers spend months in remote areas but with the need for an accompanying guide such hikers would not be able to afford such a protracted hike.
Surely, it would create some jobs in Nepal but it would also upset the individual hikers that might choose some other destinations rather than Nepal. So, even though some trekking officials might be happy with the government’s decision on making hikers require to hire a guide ultimately it might render disservice to the tourism industry in Nepal.
