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China to create ‘line of separation’ at Everest summit on COVID fears

May 9, 2021470 Views

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. Everest base camp on the Nepalese side has been hit by coronavirus cases since late April. The Nepalese government, starved of tourism revenue, has yet to cancel the spring climbing season, usually from April to early June before the monsoon rains. FILE PHOTO: Light illuminates Mount Everest, during sunset in Solukhumbu District also known as the Everest region. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar It was not immediately clear how the line would be enforced on the summit, a tiny, perilous and inhospitable area the size of a dining table. A small team of ...

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Geologist and climber reveals new truths on highest peaks

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

May 1, 20211545 Views

Releases memoir timed for 100th anniversary of first Mt. Everest expedition Timed for the 100th anniversary since the first climbers ascended Mount Everest comes the new real-life adventure memoir, The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again by Jim Davidson, a critically-acclaimed mountain climber and environmental geologist who was on the mountain’s Camp One in 2015 when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas—killing 18 people on the mountain and nearly 9,000 others across Nepal and in neighboring countries. According to Davidson, The Next Everest reveals controversial and never-before-shared facts, including: • Future Earthquake Risk: Davidson’s geologic background and in-person evaluation of the earthquake ...

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Unafraid but cautious: Climbers return to Everest

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March 11, 20211098 Views

Hundreds of climbers are set to return to Mount Everest for the first time next month under strict conditions, government officials and mountaineers said, as the world’s tallest peak reopens after a year closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than 300 foreign climbers were likely to attempt to scale the 8,849-metre (29,031-feet) mountain in the peak climbing season beginning in April, tourism department official Mira Acharya said, compared with a record 381 climbers who attempted the famed summit in the same period in 2019. FILE PHOTO: Light illuminates Mount Everest, during sunset in Solukhumbu District also known as the Everest region. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar “This is ... despite the one-week quarantine requirement and certificate showing the climber had tested negative ...

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Rising heat and snow-bare peaks chill Nepal’s mountain tourism

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February 9, 2021823 Views

Over the 12 years that Baburam Giri has worked as a hotel cook in the village of Dhampus - a major tourist draw with its views of the towering Annapurna mountain range - winters have become less snowy. “The snowfall we had five years ago was more than 2 feet deep - but we didn’t have significant snowfall after that,” lamented Giri, standing at his stove at the Hotel Yama Sakura. With hotels across the world feeling the financial pain of travel restrictions to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Giri said his central Nepal community was relying mainly on Nepali tourists, who come every year drawn by the wintry weather. But this year, the bare ground means few visitors. “Many domestic and local tourists come to this area to play in the snow whenever there is snowfall,” Giri told ...

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Nepal to turn Everest trash into art to highlight mountain’s garbage blight

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January 23, 20211423 Views

Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery, to highlight the need to save the world’s tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site. Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken ladders, cans and plastic wrappers discarded by climbers and trekkers litter the 8,848.86 metre (29,032 feet) tall peak and the surrounding areas. Tommy Gustafsson, project director and a co-founder of the Sagarmatha Next Centre - a visitors’ information centre and waste up-cycling facility - said foreign and local artists will be engaged in creating artwork from waste materials and train locals to turn trash into treasures. “We want to showcase how you can transform solid waste to precious pieces of art … and generate employment and in...

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Mount Everest becomes 86 cm taller!

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December 8, 2020490 Views

Mount Everest is higher than previously thought, Nepal and China said on Tuesday, settling a long-running conflict over the height of the world’s tallest peak that straddles their shared border. Kathmandu and Beijing had differed over its exact height but after each sent an expedition of surveyors to the summit they have agreed that the official height is 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69 feet), a bit more than their previous calculations. Everest is an “eternal symbol of ... friendship between Nepal and China,” said Nepali Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, announcing the findings of their surveys on a video call with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain ...

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Nepal to allow mountain expeditions from October 17

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September 17, 2020511 Views

Nepal will commence expedition activities for foreigners from October 17. This was announced by the Nepalese government along with the decision to allow domestic airlines to operate flights to all destinations across the country from Thursday. Nepal halted its expedition activities in March as COVID-19 spread in the Himalayan nation. Hundreds of trekkers in remote parts of the country were hurriedly flown back to capital Kathmandu while some were evacuated to their respective countries. Early this month, Nepal government had decided to grant permission to allow a Bahrain Royal Guard expedition to climb Mt Lobuje East and Mt Manaslu. Based on the proposal from Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, a team of 15 Bahrainis along with Prince of Bahrain and three Brit...

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नेपाल में अंतरराष्ट्रीय उड़ानें 1 सितंबर से लेकिन विदेशी सैलानियों को इजाजत नहीं

UPENDRA SWAMI

August 23, 2020999 Views

नेपाल सरकार ने 1 सितंबर से देश में चार्टर्ड व नियमित यात्री उड़ानों की इजाजत दे दी है लेकिन फिलहाल विदेशी सैलानियों को देश में आने की इजाजत नहीं मिलेगी। फिलहाल केवल नेपाली नागरिकों, कूटनीतिक मिशनों के प्रतिनिधियों, संयुक्त राष्ट्र संगठनों के प्रतिनिधियों और आवश्यक सेवाओं से जुड़े लोगों को ही नेपाल में आने दिया जाएगा। साथ ही, एक दिन में केवल 500 लोगों को ही देश के भीतर आने की इजाजत दी जाएगी। काठमांडू का त्रिभुवन अंतरराष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा विदेशी सैलानियों को नेपाल में आने की इजाजत कब मिलेगी, इस बारे में भी स्पष्ट रूप से कुछ नहीं बताया गया है लेकिन नेपाली लोग बेरोकटोक देश के बाहर जा सकेंगे, बशर्ते वे उस देश में प्रवेश की शर्तें पूरी करते हों जहां वे जा रहे हैं। नेपाल में पिछले करीब छह महीने से अंतरराष्ट्रीय उड़ानें बंद हैं। सितंबर-अक्टूबर के महीने नेपाल में पर्यटन के लिए पीक सीजन के तौर...

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कई सदियों पीछे ले चलेगी काठमांडू की सैर

PRADEEP CHAMARIA

July 9, 20202105 Views

मैं काठमांडू उस समय पहुंचा जब मैं एवरेस्ट बेस कैंप ट्रेक करने के लिए नेपाल गया था। यहां पहुंचने के बाद मैंने सोचा कि ट्रेक के लिए रवाना होने से पहले दो-एक दिन खुद को यहां के मौसम का अभ्यस्त कर लेना चाहिए। चूंकि मेरा स्वभाव शुरू से घुमक्कड़ों वाला रहा है, इसलिए मैं अब काठमांडू को अपने हिसाब से देखना चाहता था। मेरे पास पूरे दो दिन थे इसके लिए, इसलिए मैंने तय किया कि मैं जितना हो सकेगा घूमने के लिए सार्वजनिक परिवहन का ही इस्तेमाल करूंगा। इसलिए मैंने पहले यह पता कर लिया कि ट्रेक शुरू करने के लिए लुकला पहुंचाने वाली मेरी फ्लाइट कब है। और, उसके बाद में काठमांडू में तफरीह के लिए निकल पड़ा। मैंने सबसे उन जगहों की सूची बनाई जो मुझे देखनी थीं और इस सूची में पशुपतिनाथ मंदिर , थामेल, हनुमान धोका, दरबार स्क्वायर (या बसंतपुर दरबार), बौध स्तूप व शांति स्तूप शामिल थे। काठमांडू दरबार (हनुमान धोका) के स...