After two years of nearly zero revenue from tourism, the Mt Everest Fashion Runway in Nepal will organize a fashion event this month to promote post-pandemic eco-tourism, and establish Nepal as a centre for sustainable fashion. K Films and Kasa Nepal will partner with Endemol Shine India to organize Season 2 of the Mt Everest Fashion Runway in Gokyo on September 23. As per Nepal Times report, the event will promote sustainability in the fashion industry by displaying biodegradable, renewable and ethically-sourced fabrics.

The show will be conducted near the base camp of Mt Cho Oyu, which is at 8,188 mt is the world’s sixth-highest mountain and located on the Nepal-China border 20km west of Mt Everest. It will feature numerous international supermodels and Nepali models, all of whom will be on the catwalk, wearing designs by Ramila Nemkul of Kasa, an international fashion brand based in Kathmandu.

The clothing designs will be made of biodegradable fabric, non-violent (cruelty-free) silk, and other sustainable fabrics like pashmina and wool felt. The event will also be filmed for a documentary and a web series shot by Shruti Anindita Varma, a film director who has produced documentaries and popular reality tv shows in India.

The first Mt Everest Fashion Runway was held last year at Kala Pattar (5,643m) and was hailed by the Guinness Book as the world’s highest fashion show with models and participants from 18 countries. This year’s event will beat even that record, and there will be 200 people attending the event at the scenic Gokyo Lake located alongside Nepal’s longest glacier, the Ngozumba.