Sagarmatha National Park
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How it came to be
Sagarmatha National Park in the Solukhumbu district of eastern Nepal contains Mount Everest, Sagarmatha in Nepali, at 8,848 metres the highest point on the Earth's surface. Other great peaks rise around it, among them Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Nuptse, Ama Dablam and Pumori.
The park was established on 19 July 1976 under Nepal's National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act. About 69% of its land is barren ground above 5,000 metres, 28% grazing land and about 3% forest, home to snow leopards and red pandas. Sherpa people live in villages along the trekking routes.
In 1979 it became the first national park in Nepal to be inscribed as a natural World Heritage site. Tourism began in the early 1960s, and visitor numbers rose from 3,600 in 1979 to more than 25,000 in 2010. A buffer zone to the south was added in 2002, and half the park's revenue goes to local communities.
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