Imagine advertising gay weddings on Mount Denali, enticing gay tourists from all over the world to spend their travel money in Alaska by offering legal same sex weddings on our tallest mountain.

Well, the country of Nepal is legalizing gay marriage this spring, and they’re advertising same sex weddings on Mount Everest, complete with elephant-riding processions and honeymoon tours to Nepal’s favorite sites.

Nepal is adding rights for sexual minorities to their new national constitution, including the right to marry a same sex partner. Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal’s openly gay member of Parliament, celebrated by opening a travel company catering to gay and lesbian couples, called Pink Mountain Travels and Tours.

Nepal, a mainly Hindu country with some of the most progressive LGBT policies in Asia, is well placed to cash in on the gay travel industry, worth an estimated $670 million worldwide.

“If we brought even one per cent of that market to Nepal it would be big. But I’m hoping we can attract 10 per cent,” said Pant.

Just think what gay and lesbian tourism could do for Alaska! Oh, wait… Alaska banned same sex marriage. Too bad.