China Cancels Spring Climbing Season for Everest on Coronavirus Concerns
China has canceled the spring climbing season for ascending Mount Everest from its northern side amid concerns that expeditions to the top of the world’s tallest mountain might allow the new coronavirus to spread from neighboring Nepal.
The General Administration of Sport announced the decision Friday, saying mountaineers with permits to climb Everest should stop their ascents, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Before the announcement, a total of 21 Chinese climbers from a Tibetan company had been approved to ascend the summit this spring, according to Nima Tsering, director of the Tibet Autonomous Region Sports Bureau. Another 17 people had been allowed to travel to North Col, the pass that serves as the location of the base camp for those climbing the mountain from the northern side.
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Nepali climber makes world record by scaling Mt Everest twice in shortest span of time in a season
Mingma Tenji Sherpa, first reached the summit of the Everest in the evening of May 7 as a member of a rope-fixing team, and then scaled the world s highest mountain again on the morning of May 11.
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KATHMANDU: Mingma Tenji Sherpa, a 43-year-old Nepali mountain guide, has created a world record by scaling Mount Everest twice in the shortest span of time within a season, organisers said here on Thursday.
Sherpa, a resident of Sankhuwasabha district of eastern Nepal, first reached the summit of the Everest in the evening of May 7 as a member of a rope-fixing team, and then scaled the world s highest mountain again on the morning of May 11, said Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Seven Summit Treks, which organised the expedition.
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Mingma Tenji Sherpa, a 43-year-old Nepali mountain guide, has created a world record by scaling Mount Everest twice in the shortest span of time within a season, organisers said here on Thursday.
Sherpa, a resident of Sankhuwasabha district of eastern Nepal, first reached the summit of the Everest in the evening of May 7 as a member of a rope-fixing team, and then scaled the world s highest mountain again on the morning of May 11, said Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Seven Summit Treks, which organised the expedition.
Second time Sherpa reached atop Everest as the mountain guide of a 16-member expedition team led by Bahrain prince Sheikh Mohammed Hamad Mohammed Al Khalifa, he said.