We have a prestige to maintain
In 1949 Nepal opened its frontiers to the outside world and within eight years ten of the fourteen 8000m peaks had been climbed, Annapurna (8091m) was the first to be climbed in 1950, this was followed in 1953 by Everest (8848m) and Nanga Parbat (8125m). From then on the number of expeditions coming from many different countries of the world multiplied and by 1964 all these Himalayan giants had been climbed, one being Shisapangma (8046m) scaled by the Chinese in 1964. Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary reached the top of the world, Mt. Everest in 1953.