Travel Destinations to Avoid in 2018

Kathleen Corrigan | July 9, 2018

Mount Everest, Nepal

Mountain climbers around the world dream of one day being able to say that they conquered Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level found on the planet. Although the rise in tourism to the area has helped Nepal climb from being the third poorest nation in the world to the 28^th, it’s also brought with it a host of problems including waste management issues, an increase in tourist and Sherpa guide deaths, and a growing number of bodies that have been left unrecovered on the side of the mountain.

In order to discourage inexperienced climbers from visiting, the Nepalese government passed a law in 2015 requiring mountain climbers to buy a permit which they can only acquire if they’ve climbed a peak higher than 6,500 meters in the past. More recently, Nepal also announced a ban on solo climbers and controversially, climbers with certain physical disabilities in order to control the constant flow of tourists and the problems they bring.

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