{"id":29199,"date":"2018-03-07T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=29199"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T19:53:02","slug":"nepal-supreme-court-allows-disabled-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/nepal-supreme-court-allows-disabled-climbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Supreme Court Allows Disabled Climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a dramatic, and reasonable move, the Nepal Supreme Court has struck down a new rule by Nepal&#8217;s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation to ban climbers with double amputations and blindness.<\/p>\n<p>The case was brought on behalf of\u00a0double amputee\u00a0Hari Budha Magar who is a former British Gurkha. Mager reacted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hari.budhamagar\/posts\/10208599304419800?comment_id=10208600053278521&amp;notif_id=1520431397697128&amp;notif_t=mentions_comment&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> with &#8220;What a great news to hear when I wake up this morning. Now, we have summited a bureaucratic Mt. Everest. The justice has served! Thank you Supreme Court, you are our hope to get justice. This is true example of Nepalese judiciary system, keep it up! I hope Department of Tourism will implement this Supreme Court order. Let\u2019s climb real Mt Everest together!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 39 year-old who lives in\u00a0Canterbury, Kent, UK, had postponed his 2018 attempt one year after the original announcement. Learn more about Hari at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conqueringdreams.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fsZ00yiJIqI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This reversal is both a victory for disabled climbers and for Nepal. The legal process seemed to have worked in Nepal, something missing in recent years, plus the rights of humans, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/disabilities\/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN<\/a>, were upheld.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has made an annual joke around new rules for Everest with arm-waving designed to assure prospective climbers that it is safe to attempt Everest from the Nepal side. Let&#8217;s take a trip down memory lane at some of the best. Note that almost all have not been implemented or enforced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ladder on the Hillary Step to reduce wait times and bottlenecks<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Dual ropes for up and down traffic<\/li>\n<li>Rescue team at Camp 2 to save climbers in trouble<\/li>\n<li>An Integrated Service Center at base camp to represent the government&#8217;s administration on the ground<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Liaison Officers actually be at base camp throughout the entire expedition<\/li>\n<li>Nepal military at base camp to keep peace among climbers<\/li>\n<li>Climbers required to announce beforehand if they planned to set any record<\/li>\n<li>Climbers required to bring down 8kg of trash during climb<\/li>\n<li>Helicopters barred to go to base camp except for medical evacuations<\/li>\n<li>Trekkers required to have location beacons<\/li>\n<li>Trekking guides required to have up to date weather forecasts<\/li>\n<li>Everest permit revenue shared with local villages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only announcement that was made and actually implemented was the increase of life insurance for Everest workers. It was raised to $15,000 against the wishes of other ethnicities across Nepal. To be fair, some changes have been helpful, albeit bit strange as to why they were necessary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sirdars, mountain guides and high-altitude workers who accompany expeditions to the top of the climbing peaks, including Mt Everest, shall get summit certificates.<\/li>\n<li>Medical and life insurance for liaison officers, base camp workers, and climbing guides be increased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lets hope that this court ruling will encourage the Ministry to be more thoughtful on their proposals and focus on real reform for Everest and not window dressing.<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<br \/>\nAlan<br \/>\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a dramatic, and reasonable move, the Nepal Supreme Court has struck down a new rule by Nepal&#8217;s Ministry of Culture, Tourism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Nepal's Supreme Court struck down a new rule to ban climbers with double amputations and blindness.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7,147,494,81],"tags":[448,439,507],"class_list":["post-29199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news","category-everest","category-everest-2018-coverage","category-everest-news","tag-everest","tag-everest-news","tag-hari-budha-magar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Hari-Budha-Magar.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}