Nine Russian climbers have been already granted licenses to scale in Nepal this spring season, as Nepal's rejects Ukraine's request to ban Russian climbers from the Himalayas saying its mountains are “global assets.”
On Tuesday, a Nepalese tourism official stated that his nation will not prevent Russian climbers from conquering the Himalayan summits. Ukraine had previously requested that Russian climbing teams be barred from entering Nepal “until the end of the Russian invasion.”
The head of Nepal's tourist department, Taranath Adhikari, informed the BBC that “there has been no change in our policy so far." “We believe our mountains are global assets and any countries’ citizens willing to visit them for attainment of peace should be allowed to do so – as long as they do it within our legal provisions,” he added.
Russian athletes already have been barred from the International Olympic Committee and "many other" global athletics bodies, Ukraine's ambassador to India and Nep...