‘Climb Everest For a Discount Rate’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.22.07 | 1:30 PM ET
That’s the headline on a Reuters story about off-season discounts for climbers headed to Nepal. A tourism official told the news agency, “We are working on proposals to give a 50 percent royalty cut in the autumn and 75 percent during the winter climbing seasons.” Now, I’m no climber, but when you’re risking your life to climb the tallest mountain in the world, should you really be that considered with scoring a bargain?
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Photo by Ben Tubby via Flickr, (Creative Commons).