Sources: National News Agency Nepal and Nepal public holidays. New Zealand is not the only country to be considering a public holiday to honour the late Sir Edmund Hillary (our post of January 12). Two influential voices in Nepal have recently gone on record, in favor of an Edmund Hillary public holiday in Nepal.Speaking about the upcoming renaming of the Lukla Airport as the ‘Hillary-Tenzing Airport’, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Prithvi Subba Gurung, stated that "he would also make effort to give one day public holiday [for the] late Hillary". Presumably, this one-off public holiday would occur next week, on the occasion of Edmund Hillary's, January 22, State Funeral.
For its part, the president of the Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal (TAAN), Jyoti Adhikari, urged the government to declare May 29 as the International Mount Everest Day.
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