Nepal celebrates golden jubilee of world's 5th highest peak

Nepal is celebrating golden jubilee of Mt. Makalu, the fifth highest peak in the world, from Sunday.

Late Lean Couzy and Lionel Terray of France expedition team led by Jean Eranco was the first to scale the 8,463 meters high peak on May 15, 1955. However, Franco and other climbers conquered the peak the next day, Nepal Mountaineering Association said.

On the occasion, a procession will be organized in honor of the foreign and local mountaineer in the 50 years since the fist summit to the mountain, the association said.

The Nepali government is hosting a special program in honor of the mountaineer while commemorative stamps on Makalu will be published.

President of the association Ang Tshering Sherpa told reporters, following the successful organizing of the Golden Jubilee of the summit to the world's highest peak Mt. Qomolangma on May 18, 2004, the Golden Jubilee of scaling of all the mountains above 8,000 meters is being observed.

The Golden Jubilee celebration of Mt. Cho-Oyu (8,201) has already been observed last October, as the Nepali government has adopted a policy to celebrate Golden Jubilee Anniversary of ascend on all peaks above 8,000 meters height.

Source: Xinhua