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Seventeen-year-old Andy Hughes gets his second COVID vaccine from Brenda Maldonado while attending a vaccine clinic at Mitchell High School. The vaccine clinic was being held simultaneously with the Colorado Springs Promise Food Distribution by United Way on Thursday, June 3, 2021. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
JERILEE BENNETT
June 03, 2021
published at 2:39 AMReuters
Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal, Jan 15, 2020.
Reuters
Climbers returning from Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks are struggling to find a return flight back home after Nepal banned most air travel to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases, mountaineering operators and hikers said on Wednesday (June 2).
Most regular international flights are closed through June as a deadly second wave of the coronavirus hit the Himalayan nation tucked between China and India.
Nepal issued 742 permits – 408 of those to climbers aspiring to make it to the top of the world s highest peak, Mount Everest – in the April-May climbing season. And hundreds of climbers are now returning from the mountains before the onset of annual monsoon rains.