Posted on 05/11/2021 6:48:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Foreigners climbed Mount Everest for the first time since Nepal's government reopened the mountain after it was shut last year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, despite recent coronavirus cases at its base camp.
Thirty-eight climbers including ten Bahraini and two British mountaineers climbed the world's highest mountain on Tuesday (May 11), according to hiking companies.
This comes as a few climbers were evacuated from the Everest base camp in April after they fell sick with Covid-19 symptoms as Nepal battles a devastating second wave of coronavirus infections.
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Translation: we need your money.
Waiting for the t-shirt:
“I went to Mount Everest and all I got was this deadly virus”.
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