Helicopter dispute in Everest area: business beats environmental protection - adventure mountain

Helicopter lifts up from Namche Bazaar Mingma Sherpa and his companions in the fight against the many helicopter flights in the Everest area feel abandoned. "Unfortunately, none of the politicians talked about our movement, writes the chairman of the Namche Youth Group, who had campaigned for an end to the many purely tourist flights in the Khumbu area. "We did not have a weighty voice, to be honest, at the beginning of the year." At the beginni…