MOUNTAINEERING RULES & REGULATIONS

Observance Of Security And Conditions
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84. A party shall confine its activities to its objectives as declared in the application form.
85. 85. A party shall not indulge in any activity that might offend the religious sentiments and social or moral usages and customs of the local people.
86. A party shall not at any stage operate in more than one area and scale more than one peak.
87. Also a party shall not scale a peak by a route which goes through another peak.
88. A party shall not split into small groups while in the mountains. In case of emergency a L.O has the authority to allow splitting of a party.
89. A party shall not deviate from the specified route expected in an emergency and with the permission of a L.O.
90. Maps etc if applied for and issued to a party shall be returned to the Government of Pakistan through L.O before an expedition’s departure from Pakistan. A nominal amount of non-refundable money may also need to be deposited with the Government for use of these maps.
91. Duplicate copies of photographical data collected during mountain climbing etc. shall be handed over to L.O.
92. Should a party be of mountaineering-cum-scientific or exclusively scientific nature, the leader shall submit to the Pakistan authorities concerned for inspection of all the data/specimens/collections etc.
93. Export of all such collection without the prior permission of the Government of Pakistan is prohibited.
94. A leader shall provide a set of all such specimens to the Government of Pakistan.
95. Copies of research papers/documents prepared shall also be supplied, in duplicate, to the Government of Pakistan.