According to the Immigration Office, Belahiya, 54,001 foreign tourists entered the country from this check point from January till July, 2011.This number is nearly 10,000 more than the number of tourists entering the country from this transit point last year.

Chief of the Belahiya Immigration Office, Rajendra Adhikari said some 3,000 tourists entered Nepal from this border check point in the month of July alone. Two thousand and two hundred foreign tourists had arrived from this transit point in July last year.

This tourist arrival figure however does not include the Indian tourists entering Nepal.

Source:http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=+Tourist+arrival+increases&NewsID=297984

Two cameras will examine the total, area of Everest and the Khumbu Glacier; another 2 with telephoto lenses will get shots of the Khumbu ice fall; and another will graph the Nare Glacier.

Every camera will capture 1 picture every 30 minutes for the next three years, following thousands of motionless shots a time-lapse video of the subsiding glaciers. Balog and his EIS crew have traced glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Bolivia, the Rockies and the Alps.

The plan was finished with the North Face, well-known mountaineer Conrad Anker and his 5 people crew.
In an interview in January, Balog had told that he was expecting to place six or eight cameras on Everest by March relying constantly, on funds.

He added, “We are perhaps apart from Everest and British Columbia, we are perhaps closely finished with placing out ice-based time-lapse cameras. But what we are doing now is extending EIS to look at other subjects that aren’t just about ice, but they’re about the world varying in this age of human effect on the planet.