University Entry Exam. Exercises.

1. Explain why ecologists want to close Mount Everest. Give at least two reasons.

First reason is that the tourists bring a lot of rubbish with them to the mountains. The second is that it's too difficult to provide electricity and running water to all the small villages around the mountains when there are normally tens of thousands of tourists who arrive there every year.

2. Why is the Nepalese government against closing Mount Everest?

Because they are getting a lot af money particularly from the climbers. The Nepalese government asks for a great quantity of money to issue visas for mountaineers, around $94.000 for a group of climbers.