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Will the pandemic crush Nepal’s trekking industry?
With nearly all tourism in the region halted, Sherpa communities here face a precarious future.
Hikers trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. The coronavirus has eviscerated Nepal’s tourism economy.Photograph by Kriangkrai Thitimakorn, Getty Images
ByBen Weissenbach
Email
Three vertical miles above the Indian Ocean, eight days by foot from the nearest road, the hamlet of Dzongla sits in a windswept, snow-streaked pass beneath Mount Everest. On either side, Lobuche peak (20,075 feet) and Cholatse (21,128 feet) rise so sheerly that they seem to overhang the cluster of stone-walled and tin-roofed buildings below one of the highest and most remote human settlements on Earth.