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Coronavirus at Mount Everest: Climbers scramble to prevent the spread of covid at base camp as cases rise in Nepal washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On April 15, a climber at Everest Base Camp became the first known case of COVID-19 documented at the foot of the world’s highest peak. It’s hard to get a complete picture of what the disease is doing at Everest right now, but the situation only appears to be getting worse. “I have taken a helicopter out of EBC back to Kathmandu after 1 day,” Gina Marie Han-Lee, a climber from New York, wrote on Facebook on April 29. “The Covid situation at EBC is a total shitstorm. I had no clue what I was flying into.” On April 28, Polish climber Pawel Michalski also wrote on Facebook that “more than 30 people have already been evacuated with propellers to Kathmandu, with suspicion of pulmonary edema later found to be positive for coronavirus.” ....
We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. How to plan a big group getaway Our top tips for holidaying with family and friends By Bonnie Culbertson Jack s Camp Our current travel dreams are either focused on a long-delayed bucket-list trip or a retreat with the friends and family we’ve been kept from during Covid lockdowns. With both types of getaways now moving from reverie to reality, why not combine the two in one epic group holiday to a dream destination? On paper, it sounds like the perfect idea. Yet, as with any planned event, the more people that are involved, the more variables need to be accounted for. To make sure the trip you’ve been dreaming of this year goes off without a hitch, we’ve gathered the best advice from hospitality experts the world over. ....
For the first time in over a year, the sounds of yak bells and foreigners’ footsteps are filling the foothills of Mount Everest. As the coronavirus spread last spring, Nepal locked down its borders on March 24, 2020. The country stayed closed until this month, when it fully opened its mountains to climbers who pass a COVID-19 protocol. According to Nepal’s Department of Immigration, nearly 15,000 trekkers and tourists arrived in the country in March, over half of them coming from nearby India. (In normal years, that number is usually closer to 150,000 for the same time frame.) As of mid-April, Nepal had issued 338 permits for Everest climbers, spread across 36 teams. But more ....
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