With one of its kind stunt by a
two-time Everest summitteer, the expedition season at Mount Everest, the
world’s highest peak, is all set to draw global attention in May.
The Tourism Ministry has issued
permission to a seven-member team from the US-based National Broadcasting
Corporation and Discovery Channel, to film a stunt to be carried out by Joby
Ogwyn, and live broadcast on the Discovery Channel.
भिडिओ हेर्न तल क्लिक गर्नु होस्
According to Madhusudan Burlakoti,
Joint Secretary at the Tourism Ministry, the stunt would be “wing-suit descent.”
“It is not a jump as such,” said
Burlakoti. “The stunt-man will wear a sort of strap-on parachute and skid off
the peak and descend to the base camp.”
The filming project is an ambitious
one, where the NBC sports personality Kyle Martino and his team, in
collaboration with Discovery Channel, will analyse and broadcast the peculiar
stunt.
The daredevil event will be aired
live, NBC’s official website says, adding “many have considered the jump
world’s most dangerous stunt.”
The stunt will be performed in May.
But the exact date has not been made public yet.
A New York Post report said the
39-year-old's stunt would be aired live in a two-hour special on the Discovery
Channel.
A camera would be strapped to Ogwyn’s
wing suit for the live broadcast when he would be soaring at 150 miles per hour
back down to the base camp.
"Camera operators will also be
stationed at the Everest summit, base camp and along the mountain," the
report said.
Permission to 56 expedition teams
भिडिओ हेर्न तल क्लिक गर्नु होस्
Altogether 56 teams have been issued
permits so far to set for expeditions on different Nepali mountains, including
Mount Everest, for the upcoming mountaineering season.
The expedition season begins around
mid-April and May, the period when most expediters set themselves on the journey
to conquer Himalayas.
Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa had conquered the Mt Everest on May 29, also marked as International
Everest Day.
According to the Department of
Mountaineering under Tourism Ministry, authorities have granted permission to
24 expedition teams so far to climb Mount Everest this year.
Last year, 32 different teams were
issued permits to conquer the world’s highest peak.
Similarly, as per the available data,
two permits each have been issued so far for the expeditions on peaks Makalu,
Kanchanjunga and Dhaulagiri.
Last year, a total of 102 expeditions
were done on different Nepali mountains
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