Project aims to preserve Mt Fansipan
21/01/08 (GMT+7)
Project aims to preserve Mt Fansipan (Mt Fansipan tour), a new programme has been launched aiming to preserve Indochina's highest mountain peak, Mt Fansipan, and to boost environmentally friendly tours there.
 The programme is co-organised by Hoang Lien Son National Park's management board and a group of Fansipan climbers and nature lovers who began earlier this month to help rebuild the mountain's peak, which has been ravaged by bad weather and tourists.
The programme also includes a contest to find the most relevant symbol for the mountain. The winning symbol will be presented as a souvenir to all tourists and climbers who reach the mountain's peak.
Cash donations are welcomed directly to the Hoang Lien Son National Park management board or through bank account #12010000126414 at the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV Bank).
Mount Fansipan, at a height of 3,143 m, has been heavily vadalised by tourists and severe weather conditions. The mountain's peak plaque has been most effected, said Nguyen Quoc Tri, director of the Hoang Lien Son National Park.
The plaque was first set up by a group of Vietnamese and Russian climbers in 1984, and subsequently recognised as a symbol for the mountain.
It was rebuilt in 2003 when Sapa (Sapa tours) township celebrated its 100th year of foundation. In 2007, it was rebuilt again by Vietnamese and foreign climbers from the First Fansipan International Climbing Tournament, but has not been able to survive up until now.
Le Hong Quang, a Fansipan climber and chief co-ordinator for the project, said that if successful, the project would build up a new plaque from the original model by the middle of next month.
(Source: Viet Nam News)
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