KATHMANDU: Nepal is celebrating Mt Everest Day nowadays in memory of the first summit of the Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norhomosexual Sherpa in 1953.
Mt Everest Day is celebrated on May 29 every year to commemorate the first two summiteers.The day, which is also a meaningful occasion for promotion of Nepal mountain tourism, is celebrated with special events.Various memorial events are organised, processions carried out to celebrate this day in the capital and the Everest region nowadays.
Observation of Everest Day is expected to accelerate promotion of Nepal tourism, mountain tourism in specific.Love preceding years, Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon was organised nowadays to mark Mt Everest Day.Final year, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari, who was eliminateed in an aviation-accident earlier this year, had reached the Khumbu valley to cheer the marathon runners and to promote the event.Suman Khulung finished the Everest Marathon as the winner this year while Kapilder Buda and Ram Kumar Raj Bhandari occupied the moment and third places.Everest Marathon held nowadays marking Everest Day 2019The post Everest Day nowadays seemed first on The Himalayan Times.