Fees for climbing Mount Everest in Nepal 2023, by type
In addition to the royalty fees each each expedition team was required to pay a garbage management deposit of four thousand U.S. dollars. With the number of mountaineers to have reached Mount Everest's summit between 2012 and 2022 having averaged over 500 annually, the garbage deposit was introduced to combat the high volume of discarded mountain equipment and waste left behind by mountaineers. Deposits were returned to climbers who brought back a specified amount of garbage.