{"id":12435,"date":"2024-03-03T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/nepal-to-begin-requiring-tracking-chips-for-mount-everest-climbers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:20:16","slug":"nepal-to-begin-requiring-tracking-chips-for-mount-everest-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/nepal-to-begin-requiring-tracking-chips-for-mount-everest-climbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal To Begin Requiring Tracking Chips for Mount Everest Climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Nepal announced this week that anyone who climbs Mount Everest will be required to carry a GPS tracking chip to assist with rescue and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReputed companies were already using them but now it\u2019s been mandatory for all climbers. It will cut down search and rescue time in the event of an accident,\u201d Nepalese tourism director Rakesh Gurung said.<\/p>\n<p>The tracking chips will be rented to hikers for $10 to $15, a fee in addition to those acquired climbing Everest that cost around $40,000 for equipment, supplies, permits, and guides.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after 17 of 478 climbers either died or went missing during the trek. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is almost impossible to rescue climbers at that altitude,\u201d an official with the Nepalese tourism department said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2024\/03\/01\/nepal-requires-tracking-chips-for-mount-everest-climbers\/\">Breitbart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Nepal has traditionally required climbers to submit a photo of themselves at the peak to obtain an Everest climbing certificate, backed up by documents from a liaison officer who usually stays at the climbers\u2019 base camp. The liaison officers are well-compensated civil servants who are sometimes agreeable to falsifying their reports to become even more well-compensated, and computer technology has advanced to the point where photos of successful climbs are not difficult to falsify, so GPS data could become the new gold standard for verified ascents.\n\nThe Nepalese tourism ministry may also require biometric attendance systems to ensure that climbers and liaison officers ascend to the base camps.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/nepal-to-begin-requiring-tracking-chips-for-mount-everest-climbers\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal announced this week that anyone who climbs Mount Everest will be required to carry a GPS tracking chip to assist with rescue and recovery efforts. \u201cReputed companies were already using them but now it\u2019s been mandatory for all climbers. It will cut down search and rescue time in the event of an accident,\u201d Nepalese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}