The Nepalese government has long had a regulation stipulating that only one team per trail per season is permitted to climb Everest. The Taiwanese team was not only the only team there with legal permission, but had got that permission in 1993, three years earlier. It was only later buckling by the Nepalese government to pressure from commercial teams that led to a change in that law and the subsequent gridlock on Everest.
尼泊爾政府多年來規定一條路線、一個季節只能核准一支隊伍，台灣隊正是那一季、那一條路線取得攀登許可的隊伍，而且早在 1993 年就取得許可；是尼泊爾政府後來礙於各國商業遠征隊的龐大壓力與利益，才修改法令而造成山頂「塞車」。