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China to set up separation line on Mount Everest over COVID-19 fears
Channel News Asia ^ | 10 May 2021

Posted on 05/10/2021 1:05:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway

China will set up a "separation line" on the peak of Mount Everest to avoid possible COVID-19 infections by climbers from virus-hit Nepal, state media reported, after dozens were taken ill from the summit's base camp.

While the virus first emerged in China in late 2019, it has largely been brought under control in the country through a series of strict lockdowns and border closures.

More than 30 sick climbers were evacuated from base camp on the Nepalese side of the world's highest peak in recent weeks as Nepal faces a deadly second wave of COVID-19, raising fears that the virus might ruin a bumper climbing season. Mount Everest straddles the China-Nepal border, with the north slope belonging to China.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chine; everest; india; mounteverest; nepal; sherpas

1 posted on 05/10/2021 1:05:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

: )


2 posted on 05/10/2021 1:59:29 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: nickcarraway

The Mt. Everest garbage dump and cemetery.


3 posted on 05/10/2021 3:14:38 AM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Wear masks on Everest and interfere with the oxygen supply.


4 posted on 05/10/2021 3:21:28 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: PGalt

I need a geography lesson.

What does China have to do with Mt. Everest?


5 posted on 05/10/2021 3:48:59 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Nepal is an independent state with a federal government at its head. Meanwhile, Tibet is classified as an autonomous region or a Chinese province. Nepal has one form of government, while Tibet has two –the Chinese government and a government in exile headed by the Dalai Lama.


6 posted on 05/10/2021 4:15:03 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (president FRAUD of the divided states of China)
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To: nickcarraway

Yet another appropriate application of “Chyna is ASSHO!”


7 posted on 05/10/2021 4:18:23 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
What does China have to do with Mt. Everest?

Half of it is in China.

8 posted on 05/10/2021 4:33:53 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
What does China have to do with Mt. Everest?

Everest summit attempts can be tried from either China or Nepal as the mountain straddles the border between the two. From what I have read, the Nepalese approach and base camp are the much more popular method of attacking the mountain.

9 posted on 05/10/2021 4:47:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: nickcarraway
While the virus first emerged in China in late 2019, it has largely been brought under control in the country through a series of strict lockdowns and border closures.

Now that is a serious glossing-over and understatement.

10 posted on 05/10/2021 4:48:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“What does China have to do with Mt. Everest?”

They bought it recently. Just kidding, the other side of Everest, the north side, is officially in Tibet.


11 posted on 05/10/2021 4:52:44 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: nickcarraway

Build a wall.


12 posted on 05/10/2021 4:54:24 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: nickcarraway

” raising fears that the virus might ruin a bumper climbing season.”

Heaven forbid! “Priorities” /s


13 posted on 05/10/2021 7:11:25 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Rummyfan

Tibet, NOT China!

China didn’t “buy” it, they just “TOOK” it.

“China makes no claim to sovereign rights over Tibet as a result of its military subjugation and occupation of Tibet following the country’s invasion in 1949-1950. Instead, it bases its claim to Tibet solely on its theory that Tibet has been an integral part of China for many centuries.”

FREE TIBET

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/free-tibet?phrase=free%20tibet&sort=mostpopular


14 posted on 05/10/2021 7:24:59 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: HypatiaTaught

Commie dictatorship and theocracy led by a former kidnapped child, such a lovely choice.


15 posted on 05/10/2021 12:34:31 PM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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