Germany will ban travel from Britain starting Saturday due to concerns over a COVID-19 variant.
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Germany classified Britain as an area of variant of concern, and banned travel into the country to prevent virus spread, a post on the German Embassy s website shows. There are local outbreaks occurring again, including cases of more infectious variants such as the Indian variant at present, the post read.
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Lukas Furtenbach, an expert climbing guide from Austria, has estimated there could be upwards of 100 active cases of Covid-19 at Everest s South Base Camp in Nepal.
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The four-member Pakistani team that successfully completed the Annapurna expedition. Photo courtesy: Sirbaz Khan Instagram
ISLAMABAD: To say that Annapurna is the most dangerous of all peaks with the highest death ratio is an understatement, said Sirbaz Khan, who along with Abdul Karim Joshi became the first Pakistanis to conquer the treacherous Annapurna peak in Nepal.
“There are dangers of avalanches and rockfalls from the start and particularly between camps II and III.
“It is not surprising that ropes you fix one day are gone the next day. We didn’t realise what danger really felt like until we were engulfed in a massive avalanche between the advanced base camp and camp I. From then on, our gazes would be focused upwards looking out of rockfalls,” Khan told Dawn on the phone.
Nepal issues record climbing permits for Mt. Qomolangma amid pandemic
By IANS| Updated: 25th April 2021 5:54 am IST
Kathmandu, April 25 : Nepali authorities have issued record number of expedition permits for Mt. Qomolangma, defying expectations of reduced number of permit issuance compared to past years amid Covid-19 pandemic.
The Himalayan country issued a record 394 permits for the Mt. Qomolangma, the world’s tallest peak by Friday, which broke the earlier record of 381 permits issued in 2019, according to the Department of Tourism, which issues such permits, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
“We had not expected that such a large number of mountaineers would be climbing the Mt. Qomolangma in the middle of the pandemic,” Mira Acharya, director at the mountaineering section of the department told Xinhua on Friday. “This suggests the massive charm of Mt. Qomolangma among the mountaineers as well as their passion towards climbing the mountain despite the risk of