For my final paper, I want to write about the environmental and economic impacts of tourism caused by mountaineering. I would like to focus specifically on Mount Everest to give some focus to the paper and because there has been so much tourism to Everest in the recent years.

Proposed sources:

“Growth of Tourism in Nepal’s Everest Region: Impact on the Physical Environment and Structure of Human Settlements” by Ivan G. Pawson, Dennyse D. Stanford, Vincanne A. Adams and Mingma Nurbu

“Tourism and Deforestation in the Mt. Everest Region of Nepal” by Stan Stevens

“Tourism, Change, and Continuity in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal” by Stanley F. Stevens

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empires to the Age of Extremes by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver