Nepal is set to increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by 36%. This will make hiking the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade. Under the revised mountaineering regulations, the royalty fee for foreigners to climb 8,849-metre (29,032ft) Everest would cost $15,000 (£12,000), said Narayan Prasad Regmi, the director general …