{"id":10877,"date":"2014-04-29T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2014-04-28T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:05:15","slug":"the-economics-of-sherpas-on-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-sherpas-on-mount-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Sherpas On Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042914_0001_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 mountain guides last week. Caroline Winter delved into the economics of those who help tourists make the climb:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nepal makes $3.5 million each year in climbing fees from Mount Everest.<\/li>\n<li>Climbers have to pay up to $150,000 to attempt to get to the top of the mountain.<\/li>\n<li>Yet Sherpas only get between $2,000 and $8,000 per climb.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t bad for a country where the average income is less than $600. But in climbing Everest multiple times a year they take immeasurable risks.<\/li>\n<li>In the wake of the accident the Nepalese government has announced that the guides who die on the world&#8217;s tallest mountain will be covered by an insurance policy worth $15,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the pressures that the guides face, what climbers get for their money, and what Sherpas themselves have to say over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-04-24\/the-business-of-everest-what-it-pays-to-risk-it-all\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-04-24\/the-business-of-everest-what-it-pays-to-risk-it-all\">Businessweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 mountain guides last week. Caroline Winter delved into the economics of those who help tourists make the climb: Nepal makes $3.5 million each year in climbing fees from Mount Everest. Climbers have to pay up to $150,000 to attempt to get to the top of the mountain. Yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042914_0001_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}