European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Business of Mountain climbing a before the peaks a venture the climber Malayan Peak n the what in t generally 1 of paper work has o be and Romance is also a France Lorms and Mills Atenco. Una Everest or a Lessof i years to 90 a 1c world s tallest Peak is to Are the expenses in so pages o rules s Tor Europe s Alps or Pakistan and India a of Everest k-2 and a Pei mils. D Hillary and Sherpa i Everest on Way 29, Len have stood atop the is have died trying it is gelling to the a Langley. A Canadian .812-Metor 22.479.fool 10 Miles Southwest of consultant com my the Mountain in thou the permit i y three weeks mountaineering division Wing number of people Pounla Inloes among government Grants de Lions throughout the said Khal Iwada. 1.000 climbers nol usually irom she nimble in mountaineers. Nearly All Nepal s 0 and applications for r the year 2000 Tibet of climbers and Nepal s environment a Iarj Burden of too 5 to government t Many socks shoes guides and porters St the beginning of an 48 meters 129.028 feet mop Alese. Rupees or 12,547. For any other Peak above 8,000 meters 26,400 eel the fee is s2.q33, for mount Ama dab am in costs $1,528. Langley s team of himself four other canadians and an american has budgeted $24,000 Lor the climb each paying one sixth of Iho Cost. All his people Are experienced and have most of the needed equipment. The american climber Tom Dickey has worked As a trekking guide in Nopal the team is taking along a Liaison officer required by the government but paid by Chr expedition a chief Sheila. An assistant and 12 porters. Salaries Lor All Are listed in inc government rules along Wilh inc equipment to be provided to them in Nelcy said gear is rarely Given to the so craps most of have equipment from earlier climbs instead a Cash payment 13 usually negotiated and this is the biggest Cost Lor Tabor. The daily salary in the scheme of things is said Langfry. He said inc government Liaison of cer Tor example is paid $2 a Duy. But h s equipment allowance 15 1800, other expenses include $1,000 for an Agency to help Case the Way through the nepalese bureaucracy $350 for required insurance for climbers and Sherpa plus the Cost of getting climbers and choir equipment to Nepal. By putting up t4,000 each to make the climb. Langley s team was saved i of the biggest Burden Tor Many climbers bogging funds from mountaineering societies philanthropists of companies wanting publicity for their products Peter Hill an englishman also leading an expedition up Ama dab am said a wrote 400 letters seeking backing without Success. To get Money i Host Days for a Peak it s got to be unction bed or it s got to be he complained. But Hill. 26. From Hampshire had a stroke of Luck. His father discovered a newspaper and for a Bank that uses Ama dab am Peak for its business Emblem. The Bank agreed to a Grant of 10,000 Briti Sli pounds or is 6,000. Provided that Hiil shoots 40 minutes of film in the climb to be Cut to a 30 to 40-Socond to commercial. Climbing expeditions must pay $500 to 11.500 Lor my permits and 21 percent duly on camera gear. The equipment Hill is using is Wilh $72.000, any change in an a pod lion plan requires a new permit application one frequent change Given la eos year Lime lag is trial some climbers drop out and onnors pin often Lor personal reasons such As marriages or births too Many changes Vrlik upsetting the Nep Icse Anco permission can be with Dia a plans can run aloud of Nepal s Buie Cracy. Loo a permit is is med for one route up one Mountain at a certain time. In inn any of Hill and Langley both a Ere granted provisional Permil s for Tho Samo climb. And both expedition Lac c jeopardized Bui Lang by discovered the problem and he and Hill decked to Coo Peale an agreement was worked Oul with the government for the two learns each Small compared to Many Oil a to Sharo the mtg Jalam group of chinese Mountain Calm bin at 25,000 feet on their Way be the top of mount Everest daring in or Ledwon in 1960. Climbers Cross a Husnu Glacier it 18,500 left an route to top 1963 photo Membert Farn Trice Ilcent annl Everett expedition a Tow cow of Jar ouch Psalti of i Marfai irom Camp at Petrie he 13,900 fat jri17, 1988 the stars Ano stripes Pago 15
