ASHFORD, Wash. (AP) — Mountain climbers aren’t happy about a National Park Service proposal to boost the cost of a permit to climb Mount Rainier by two-thirds and for Alaska’s Mount McKinley by 250 percent.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reports that Rainier park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga plans to propose to the National Park Service that the fee for an annual Rainier climbing pass be increased from $30 to as much as $50. Uberuaga says the increase is needed to train climbing rangers and other expenses.
Three climbing activist groups wrote to park service Director Jon Jarvis last week to protesting the increase and a proposal to raise the climbing fee for Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park by 250 percent, from $200 to $500. They say the added costs could make climbing too expensive for many people.
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Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com
