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.
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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.
updated: Jun 02 2021, 20:43 ist
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.
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.
COVID-19 travel curbs leave Mount Everest climbers looking for flights home
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.
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Mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung, left, gestures as she arrives at an airport in Kathmandu on Sunday. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
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.