Kathmandu, March 23:A football tournament comprising senior division football teams of Kathmandu will be held from April 14 to 22, this year to commemorate late Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepalese woman to scale the Mount Everest.

The winners of the Late Pasang Lhamu Memorial Football Tournament to be played under knock-out basis will receive fifty thousand rupees while the runners up will get Rs. 25,000 rupees in cash prizes, the organiser of the tournament, Nepal Trekking—Travels-Rafting Workers Union (UNITRAV) told the media this afternoon.

The best player and highest goal scorer of the tournament will get ten thousand rupees and a gold chain each in prize. The tournament is expected to cost about six hundred thousand rupees to the organisers.

Nine senior division clubs of Kathmandu have already applied to play in the tournament while five others have consented to play in the weeklong tournament to be held at national Dasharath Stadium. The teams who have enrolled their names for the participation are: Manang Marshyangdi, Kathmandu Club, Bansbari Club, Friends Club, RCT, Naxal Yuva Mandal, Sankata Boys, Jawalakhel and Three Stars.

“The tournament is being organised in commemoration of brave woman who acquired the distinction of being first Nepali to climb Mount Everest but was killed while returning from the highest peak of the world ” the organisers said.

The tournament is an emotional tribute to the brave lady from UNITRAV, said UNITRAV’s Secretary Deepak Poudel who is also co-ordinating the tournament. The tournament will be held every year from now, Poudel added.

He said that All Nepal Football Association has given its consent for the tournament and is providing its technical assistance to the organisers, Poudel said.