Dr Kami Temba Sherpa of the remote Khunde Hospital in the Himalayas has concerns about the border opening after he contracted COVID-19 in December. When I developed pneumonia or my oxygen saturation was dropping down, I thought I was not going to make it, he tells Newshub.
He believes there s a high chance new strains of COVID-19 will come in with the mountaineers. People are working, walking, without any masks, there s no social distancing, there s no physical distancing. So yeah, we are worried.
The remote Khumbu region of the Himalayas is home to thousands of Sherpas, and the virus has made its way into the far reaches of those secluded mountains and valleys.
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Triumph, tragedy mark historic winter first on K2 by Nepali climbers 2 minutes read
By Sangam Prasain
Kathmandu, Jan 21 (efe-epa).- A group of 10 Nepali climbers made the first winter ascent of K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain, pulling off one of the “last remaining great prizes” in mountaineering history.
The group reached on Jan.16 the 28,251-foot summit of K2, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram range.
“Finally we did it. We made history in the mountaineering field,” Mingma Gyalze Sherpa, who is known as Mingma G, wrote on his Facebook page.
Congratulatory messages started pouring in from around the world for the historic success since the peak was the last of the world’s 14 tallest mountains that had not been climbed in winter.
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