In recent weeks, there has been a great deal of noise in the area of Nepal, especially in the Gorkha region and more specifically in Mount Manaslun. Apparently, in the early days of the fall there have been a lot of people who have made a summit, or that is what they say. In recent years, tourists who approach these highlands make all the preparations and logistics required by an expedition paying a company. These companies cover all the needs of tourists, from raising material to the upper camps, setting up shops, preparing water and food, raising oxygen bonds, guiding and laying fixed strings. A tourist with money pays with money what the most work asks in an expedition. Some even do not do the slightest documentation required by the ascension of a hill such as forgiveness.
"Just like the top is the only one, public services and their character are unique. Many of these services are outsourced, they look like the ones that really are public, but they're not."
All of this comes because many of these tourists who have reached the top in recent weeks have not reached the top and have remained at a very high peak called C2. They came as far as the sherpas of the companies had put them on fixed strings, but not as far as the top. The Manaslu Summit, one and only, is located at 8,156 meters high and, as seen in the photos, is accessed by a snow and ice edge. The C2, although there is an altitude difference of a few meters, is a frontal peak located about 30 meters from the top.
In our country there are those who, without having done anything, take that name for themselves. In this pandemic, the importance and prestige of public services has increased considerably. Following that trend, some call themselves public and others, of course, give their approval to this self-designation. They haven't reached the top, but they say they've done it.
Just as the summit is unique, public services and their character are unique. Many of these services are outsourced, they look like the ones that are actually public, but they are not. The public doesn't have to be better, but in ours everything is the same. It has a ownership, a personality and functions that are its own, like a peak. And the C2 peak, even though it looks like the top, if it's below 5 meters, is the front tip.
Each one is everything and has what it has. And changing that disfigures real public services and makes their needs more difficult.