The Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has issued expedition permit to two mountaineering groups for climbing Mt Manaslu and Mt Nuptse this spring.

The Department granted permission for climbing Manaslu (8,163m) which is located in Gorkha district and Nuptse (7,864m) in Solukhumbu district.

The permit has been issued for a single climber for Nuptse which sits adjacent to the world’s highest mountain, Sagarmatha (Mt Everest), and the world’s fourth-highest mountain, Mt Lhotse while four climbers will attempt to scale Manaslu, the eighth-highest mountain in the world, according to Department’s officer Bhismaraj Bhattarai.

Bhattarai shared that the Department had received many applications for expeditions on other mountains, a majority of them were for Mt Everest and Mt Annapurna.