A hero’s welcome and red carpet await Anshu Jamsenpa, the first Indian and the second woman to conquer Mt Everest twice in less than a fortnight, when she returns home to Arunachal Pradesh this week. But in Nepal, bureaucratic red tape threatens to trip up the 32-year-old with Nepal’s tourism and civil aviation ministry saying she acted “illegally” by summiting the 8,848m peak a second time, IANS reported.”There is a controversy about Jamsenpa’s Everest ascents,” Laxman Bhattarai, spokesman at Nepal’s Tourism and Civil Aviation Ministry, was quoted saying. “She applied for a permit to us to climb Mt Everest once and paid the required royalty. However, she then summited the peak a second time without taking a permit first or paying the licence fee again.”Ordinarily, Bhattarai told IANS, this would be tantamount to avoiding paying royalty to the government and a punishable offence.However, the mother of two was optimistic that the red tape problem would be resolved amicably.”I first summited Mt Everest on May 12,” Jamsenpa was quoted saying. “Then I decided on the spur of the moment to try once more and was told that there would be a weather window on May 21, allowing climbers to attempt the summit. There was little time to complete all the formalities before that and so, I thought I would climb first and then sort out things.”Jamsenpa had also claimed she held talks with Nepali officials who were at the Everest base camp and had received the impression that given the weather constraints, she could climb first and then come back and deposit the second permit fee.
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