Queueing at top of the world: Climbers are scaling Everest in record numbers despite Covid outbreaks
3 years, 7 months ago

Queueing at top of the world: Climbers are scaling Everest in record numbers despite Covid outbreaks

Daily Mail  

Climbers have been scaling Mount Everest in record numbers this spring, forming queues to the summit amid a surge in coronavirus cases and fears they are spreading a new Nepalese strain across the globe. Mount Everest has issued a record number of permits, worth around £3 million, after last year's peak season was ruined by coronavirus Dozens of climbers are lined up close to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal on May 12. There was a record 9,317 cases reported on May 11 as hordes of mountaineers began taking to the peak for the spring high season Public Health England's weekly report found the variant had been spotted 43 times in Britain so far, up from the 29 last week Lukas Furtenbach, who was the first to call off his expedition because of Covid-19 outbreaks, says the government should extend the validity of the £7,800 licence his clients purchased to climb Everest. Record numbers of permits have been issued after last year's climbing season was dashed by coronavirus Mountaineers pose at the top of Mount Everest as a long queue forms down the mountain of others keen to take their picture at the peak Mountaineers look back towards Camp 4, the final camp along the trek, before making their way up to the summit of Everest A group of mountaineers make their way up to the summit of Mount Everest, 29,000ft above sea level Mountaineers' tents at Camp 2 on Mount Everest on May 8 Mountaineers tents set up at Camp 2 on Mount Everest on May 8.

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Indian climber rescued from Everest dies in hospital as season closes
7 months, 1 week ago

Indian climber rescued from Everest dies in hospital as season closes

The Hindu  

An Indian climber who was evacuated from Mount Everest after he fell ill last week has died, taking the number of deaths this season on the world’s highest peak to five, officials said on Wednesday. One Nepali climber, Binod Babu Bastakoti, 37, died last week in the so-called death zone, which has a very low oxygen level, while descending after …

Indian mountaineer rescued from Mt Everest dies, 8th death in this season
7 months, 1 week ago

Indian mountaineer rescued from Mt Everest dies, 8th death in this season

Hindustan Times  

An Indian climber rescued from Everest has died in hospital, a Nepali tourism official said Tuesday, taking the number of fatalities this season on the world's highest mountain to eight. Three more died climbing other Nepali peaks including a Romanian aiming for Lhotse, which neighbours Everest, while a French and a Nepali climber died on Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain. …

Nepal: Everest Spring climbing season begins, China reopens Tibetan route as record number of climbers expected
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Nepal: Everest Spring climbing season begins, China reopens Tibetan route as record number of climbers expected

Hindustan Times  

Ten Nepali climbers reached the top of Mount Everest late Friday from its southern approach, opening the route for hundreds of summit hopefuls. Nepal: Everest Spring climbing season begins, China reopens Tibetan route as record number of climbers expected Every year, the first summit of Everest is by a team from one of Nepal's expedition organising companies, who prepare the …

Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem

CNN  

Those hoping to climb Everest this year will have to make some slight adjustments to their packing list, as new rules now mandate that climbers bring their excrement down with them from the world’s highest peak, in a bid to tackle pollution. Mountaineers' tents at Camp 2 of Everest on May 8, 2021 Pemba Dorje Sherpa/AFP/Getty Images With gear, food, …

Explained: Why this season has been so dangerous for Everest climbers
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained: Why this season has been so dangerous for Everest climbers

Firstpost  

A combination of extreme weather, corner-cutting on safety, and inexperienced and ‘impatient’ foreign climbers has resulted in one of the peak’s deadliest mountaineering seasons Scaling Mount Everest was never an easy task but this season has turned out to be the deadliest. “This season was very bad overall,” said expedition organiser Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, of Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition, …

Mount Everest conquest 70th anniversary: Rising climate concerns pose threat to world's highest mountain
1 year, 7 months ago

Mount Everest conquest 70th anniversary: Rising climate concerns pose threat to world's highest mountain

India TV News  

As the highest peak in the world celebrates its 70th anniversary there is growing concern about global warming which on the world’s tallest mountain. “The effects of climate change are hitting not just the fishes of Antarctica, the whales or the penguins, but it’s having a direct impact on the Himalayan mountains and the people there,” said Ang Tshering, a …

Nepal issues record number of permits to climb Mount Everest
1 year, 8 months ago

Nepal issues record number of permits to climb Mount Everest

CNN  

CNN — Nepal has issued permits for a record 463 climbers so far for this spring season’s expeditions to Mount Everest even as experts worry about dangerous overcrowding at the summit. Spring is the prime time to climb Mount Everest, although some mountaineers might climb in the less favorable autumn season. The climbers, along with staff members and Sherpa guides, …

Nepal issues record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest despite fears of overcrowding
1 year, 8 months ago

Nepal issues record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest despite fears of overcrowding

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nepal has issued a record …

Nepal issues record 454 Mount Everest climbing permits
1 year, 8 months ago

Nepal issues record 454 Mount Everest climbing permits

Al Jazeera  

More than 900 climbers to head up the world’s highest peak four years after at least four deaths were blamed on overcrowding. Nepal has issued a record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest this spring, officials say, four years after at least four deaths on the world’s highest peak were blamed on overcrowding. “This is the highest number of permits …

Famed American ski mountaineer missing in Nepal mountain
2 years, 3 months ago

Famed American ski mountaineer missing in Nepal mountain

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rescuers in a helicopter were …

Nepal's tourism department mulls shifting Everest base camp due to risk of melting glacier, unsafe human activity
2 years, 6 months ago

Nepal's tourism department mulls shifting Everest base camp due to risk of melting glacier, unsafe human activity

Hindustan Times  

The Nepal government is contemplating shifting the base camp of Mount Everest as global warming and human activity are making the current location unsafe, a senior official said in Kathmandu on Friday. Nepal's tourism department mulls shifting Everest base camp due to risk of melting glacier, unsafe human activity The current base camp, situated at an altitude of 5,364-metre on …

‘Fear and panic’ as COVID ravages Nepali villages near Mt Everest
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Fear and panic’ as COVID ravages Nepali villages near Mt Everest

Al Jazeera  

Sherpa settlements in the lap of Mount Everest are reeling from COVID-19 as climbing season ends on the world’s highest peak. “She was too weak and already on oxygen support.” According to health officials, Karki’s was the fourth confirmed COVID-19 death in the Everest region since late April, when a Norwegian climber seeking to summit the world’s highest peak became …

An Everest season like no other in Nepal amid a deadly pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

An Everest season like no other in Nepal amid a deadly pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Lakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest seven times. The warmer spring weather usually signals safer conditions for scaling Everest and other Himalayan peaks, but this year it coincided with a deadly second wave of virus infections engulfing Nepal, reports of more than 9,000 daily cases in May. Yet authorities in Nepal have not acknowledged a single case on the mountain, with …

How Covid-19 scaled Mt Everest
3 years, 7 months ago

How Covid-19 scaled Mt Everest

Hindustan Times  

After nearly a year of no climbs, just a few in early winter, and now a return of climbers from around the world, three things have started to happen. And the climbing community is abuzz with the news of what’s being called an “outbreak” on Everest.. “Only the teams that had come with their own doctor and testing kits are …

When the pandemic hits the highest peak
3 years, 7 months ago

When the pandemic hits the highest peak

Hindustan Times  

A coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, according to a report by Associated Press on Sunday. Lukas Furtenbach, an expedition organiser, said there were at least “100 people minimum positive for Covid in base camp, and then the numbers might be something like 150 or 200.” Other climbers have talked about the …

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
3 years, 7 months ago

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal

Deccan Chronicle  

Beijing: China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighbouring Nepal, state media reported. The closure was confirmed in a notice Friday from China's General Administration of Sport, the official Xinhua News Agency said. While China has mostly curbed domestic transmission of the coronavirus, …

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal
3 years, 7 months ago

China cancels Everest climbs over fears of virus from Nepal

India TV News  

China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighbouring Nepal, state media reported. The closure was confirmed in a notice Friday from China's General Administration of Sport, the official Xinhua News Agency said. While China has mostly curbed domestic transmission of the coronavirus, Nepal …

China cancels Everest spring climb citing Covid concerns days after 'line of separation' move
3 years, 7 months ago

China cancels Everest spring climb citing Covid concerns days after 'line of separation' move

India Today  

China has decided to cancel the 2021 spring climbing season from the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, because of coronavirus concerns, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The Himalayan nation of Nepal, which is so short of oxygen canisters it has asked mountaineers to bring back their empties, has issued a record 408 permits …

US and Swiss climbers die on Everest in first climbing casualties of 2021
3 years, 7 months ago

US and Swiss climbers die on Everest in first climbing casualties of 2021

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two climbers from the United …

Everest authorities tell climbers to bring back empty oxygen cylinders amid Nepal’s Covid shortage
3 years, 7 months ago

Everest authorities tell climbers to bring back empty oxygen cylinders amid Nepal’s Covid shortage

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In a desperate plea to …

China to create 'line of separation' at Everest summit on Covid fears
3 years, 8 months ago

China to create 'line of separation' at Everest summit on Covid fears

India Today  

China will set up "a line of separation" at the summit of Mount Everest to prevent the mingling of climbers from COVID-hit Nepal and those ascending from the Tibetan side as a precautionary measure, Chinese state media reported on Sunday. A small team of Tibetan climbing guides will ascend Everest and set up the "line of separation" at the summit …

Covid-19 reaches Mount Everest, multiple climbers test positive in record tourist season
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 reaches Mount Everest, multiple climbers test positive in record tourist season

India Today  

Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, doesn't seem to be safe from Covid-19, with reports emerging of multiple climbers testing positive at the base camp in Nepal. According to The Washington Post, the Nepal Mountaineering Association has confirmed only four Covid-19 cases at the base camp — three climbers and one local guide. "The Nepal Government is still denying there …

Covid reaches world's highest mountain. Norwegian climber 1st to test positive on Mount Everest
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid reaches world's highest mountain. Norwegian climber 1st to test positive on Mount Everest

India Today  

The coronavirus has conquered the world's highest mountain. A Norwegian climber became the first to be tested positive for Covid-19 in Mount Everest base camp and was flown by helicopter to Kathmandu, where he was hospitalised. An ace mountain guide, Austrian Lukas Furtenbach, warned that the virus could spread among the hundreds of other climbers, guides and helpers who are …

Covid reaches Everest as base camp climbers infected
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid reaches Everest as base camp climbers infected

The Telegraph  

Nepal has reported its first cases of Covid-19 among climbers trying to conquer Everest, only weeks after the world's highest mountain reopened with strict public health precautions. Several climbers have tested positive for coronavirus infection in the capital, Kathmandu, after being flown from the mountain's base camp, the New York Times reported. “We have no other options,” Rudra Singh Tamang, …

Nepal bans three Indian climbers for six years for faking Mt Everest summit
3 years, 10 months ago

Nepal bans three Indian climbers for six years for faking Mt Everest summit

Deccan Chronicle  

Kathmandu: Nepal has banned two Indian climbers and their team leader from carrying out any mountaineering expeditions in the country for six years after a probe found that they faked their Mt Everest summit in 2016, according to a media report on Thursday. Indian nationals Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami received expedition certificates during the spring season of …

PCR test report, entry-permit: Nepal issues new guidelines for mountaineering, trekking
4 years, 3 months ago

PCR test report, entry-permit: Nepal issues new guidelines for mountaineering, trekking

India TV News  

Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has issued new guidelines for foreign tourists aimed at minimising the spread of COVID-19 during mountaineering and trekking activities, the media reported on Tuesday. Travellers must also carry a PCR test report conducted not more than 72 hours ago, proving that the person was COVID-19 negative. Along with the report, the person …

Nepal lifts coronavirus ban for Bahrain royal climbing expedition
4 years, 4 months ago

Nepal lifts coronavirus ban for Bahrain royal climbing expedition

India Today  

Nepal is making a royal exception to its coronavirus ban on foreign arrivals, with a mountaineering team including a Bahrain prince set to tackle two major peaks. The Himalayan country shut its borders in March including grounding international flights just ahead of the busy spring season, devastating the local tourism sector. "A 15-member Bahrain team including the prince of Bahrain …

Nepal reopens Everest for trekking season despite virus concerns
4 years, 5 months ago

Nepal reopens Everest for trekking season despite virus concerns

Deccan Chronicle  

Kathmandu: Nepal has reopened its mountains -- including Everest -- for the autumn trekking and climbing season in a bid to boost the struggling tourism sector, officials said Friday, despite coronavirus uncertainty. "It would be a relief for mountaineering workers if we can run expeditions after an empty spring season," Sherpa said. Autumn summits on Everest last year were thwarted …

Nepal to resume international flights after long halt due to coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Nepal to resume international flights after long halt due to coronavirus

Live Mint  

Nepal will allow regular international airline flights from August 17, a minister said on Tuesday, nearly four months after suspending them to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Wedged between China and India, Nepal enforced a nationwide lockdown, halting scheduled flights, in March, when reported its first confirmed cases of COVID-19. Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 …

No work and little savings, Nepal’s Sherpa widows face battle
4 years, 6 months ago

No work and little savings, Nepal’s Sherpa widows face battle

Al Jazeera  

Nepal’s decision to close mountains due to coronavirus has rendered about 200,000 people working as guides jobless. After conquering Mount Everest and shattering taboos, two Nepali Sherpa widows face a new challenge – the coronavirus pandemic – which has shut down all climbing and trekking activities, leaving them without jobs. Nima Doma Sherpa and Furdiki Sherpa made global headlines when …

Mount Everest closed over coronavirus fears
4 years, 9 months ago

Mount Everest closed over coronavirus fears

CNN  

CNN — The coronavirus outbreak has reached the top of the world. Nepal announced on Friday it is shutting down all expeditions on Mount Everest for the rest of this year’s climbing season amid the worsening global pandemic. The decision comes at the start of this year’s closely watched climbing season, which was already getting underway amid concerns around overcrowding …

Everest climbers will now have to disclose full medical history, mandatory insurance
5 years ago

Everest climbers will now have to disclose full medical history, mandatory insurance

India TV News  

Climbers at Mount Everest will now be needed to disclose their full medical history. According to a new set of rules drafted by Nepal's Tourism Department, climbers would also be required to submit a medical report by a certified doctor, along with a mandatory insurance in order to obtain the permit to climb mountains in Nepal, including the world's tallest …

Nepal considers stopping less experienced climbers from scaling Everest over safety fears
5 years, 4 months ago

Nepal considers stopping less experienced climbers from scaling Everest over safety fears

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The new safety rules, which aim to address deadly …

Mt Everest tragedy is proof that boom in climbing tourism is both dangerous and unsustainable
5 years, 6 months ago

Mt Everest tragedy is proof that boom in climbing tourism is both dangerous and unsustainable

Firstpost  

After witnessing 11 deaths on the Everest, one is faced with the fact that with the increasing commercialisation of mountaineering, safety measures and caution are taking a back seat. The paradox of modern mountaineering is that the provision of necessary expedition support and all-inclusive packages also encourages inexperienced climbers who wish to reach the desired summit at any cost, putting …

Mount Everest deaths: Nepal govt says 'traffic jam' not sole reason, claims factors like sickness of climbers also responsible
5 years, 6 months ago

Mount Everest deaths: Nepal govt says 'traffic jam' not sole reason, claims factors like sickness of climbers also responsible

Firstpost  

The large number of deaths of climbers on the Mount Everest this season is not solely due to the ’traffic jam’ on the world’s highest peak, the Nepal government claimed, citing factors like high altitude sickness, other health reasons and adverse weather. Kathmandu: The large number of deaths of climbers on the Mount Everest this season is not solely due …

Nepal faces mountainous challenge identifying Everest bodies
5 years, 7 months ago

Nepal faces mountainous challenge identifying Everest bodies

The Hindu  

The bodies of four climbers who failed their Everest challenge and left little clue as to their identity have thrown up a new challenge for Nepalese authorities who control the world's tallest peak. READ| Nepal looks to limit Everest access after deaths, but doubts linger A government-organised clean-up team retrieved the bodies between the Everest base camp and the South …

Nepal looks to limit Everest access after deaths, but doubts linger
5 years, 7 months ago

Nepal looks to limit Everest access after deaths, but doubts linger

The Hindu  

Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world's highest peak, but mountaineering experts fear the proposed changes could amount to little more than lip service. “People who know nothing of climbing, never been on a mountain, came and tried to climb Everest,” Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr told AFP after …

Nepal looks to limit Everest access after 11 die this climbing season
5 years, 7 months ago

Nepal looks to limit Everest access after 11 die this climbing season

Hindustan Times  

Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world’s highest peak, but mountaineering experts fear the proposed changes could amount to little more than lip service. “People who know nothing of climbing, never been on a mountain, came and tried to climb Everest,” Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr told AFP after …

Why a deadly shadow hangs over Mount Everest summit
5 years, 7 months ago

Why a deadly shadow hangs over Mount Everest summit

The Hindu  

As the return of cloud and frozen hurricane-force winds seal off Mount Everest for another year, questions are being asked about how to police the world's highest peak after the deadliest climbing season in years. As the blame game is played out, here are some of the problems facing the lucrative Everest industry -- and potential solutions: - Summit Days …

Global warming affects Mt Everest, exposes 10 tonnes of garbage and human remains
5 years, 7 months ago

Global warming affects Mt Everest, exposes 10 tonnes of garbage and human remains

Firstpost  

Many people who climb the mountain pay very little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. Four bodies have been retrieved from Everest and some ten tonnes of garbage plucked from the mountain at the end of this year’s climbing season, Nepal authorities said Monday. Global warming means melting glaciers are revealing human remains and rubbish, which has gathered …

Overcrowding not the 'only' reason for death toll rise at Everest, says Nepal
5 years, 7 months ago

Overcrowding not the 'only' reason for death toll rise at Everest, says Nepal

India TV News  

Nepal's tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to "overcrowding" and said factors including adverse weather conditions also resulted in the deaths. Tourism Department's Director General Dandu Raj Ghimire said 381 people had ascended Everest this spring but as periods of fine weather had been short, the number of people on the …

Mount Everest suffers 'traffic jam' after two climbers die near summit
5 years, 7 months ago

Mount Everest suffers 'traffic jam' after two climbers die near summit

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Climbers have been stuck in …

Mount Everest: Two more climbers die reaching summit
5 years, 7 months ago

Mount Everest: Two more climbers die reaching summit

The Hindu  

A huge queue of climbers has formed near the summit of Mount Everest as expedition organisers Thursday reported two more deaths on the world's highest mountain. READ | Two Indian climbers die on world's third highest mountain Donald Lynn Cash, 55, collapsed at the summit on Wednesday as he was taking photographs, while Anjali Kulkarni, also 55, died while descending …

Climate change isn't the only thing affecting Everest – bodies, trash and poop are too
5 years, 8 months ago

Climate change isn't the only thing affecting Everest – bodies, trash and poop are too

Firstpost  

A 14-member team has been tasked with tidying up Everest, the world’s highest dumping ground. A dedicated clean-up team sent to Mount Everest has collected three tonnes of garbage in its first two weeks, officials said Wednesday, in an ambitious plan to clean the world’s highest rubbish dump. As this year’s spring climbing season kicked off last month, the Nepal …

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