Chinese explorers start Everest climb amid COVID-19 pandemic: Report
World | April 04, 2020 19:39 ISTA group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
A group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
Many Chinese climbers have started cancelling their expedition bookings after the COVID-19 outbreak.
The team members will be battling extreme cold, high winds and piled-up snow and ice as they try to become the first to reach the top of Everest in the winter in 27 years.
If the research presented in December last year is to be believed, the glaciers along Mount Everest's flanks had shrunk significantly from the top down and this happened in between 1962 to 2018.
A new set of rules has now been introduced for Mount Everest climbers. Until now, climbers below the age of 16, persons with serious diseases and criminal history were the only ones barred from climbing mountains.
Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8,000 metres in seven years, 10 months and six days
The decision to jointly re-measure the height of Mt. Everest was taken after Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his Nepalese counterpart Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli in Kathmandu during the weekend.
The main objective of the programme was to highlight the importance of yoga in daily life and to bring peace and harmony across the nations and among people, a press statement issued by the Embassy said.
The successful installation aims to break new ground in monitoring and understanding of climate change as the stations will help continuously monitor the upper reaches of the atmosphere, which is critical to tracking and predicting weather patterns around the globe.
A total of 11,000 kg garbage and four dead bodies were removed from the Mount Everest during a two-month long cleanliness drive conducted by the Nepal government on the world's highest mountain.
Traffic jam at Mount Everest creates lethal conditions for climbers
The deaths rising at Mount Everest is not solely because of overcrowding said, Nepal government. Other factors such as adverse weather conditions could be one of the prime reasons that are contributing to the same.
More than 10,000 kilograms of solid waste was collected from Mt. Everest during a first-ever cleaning campaign on the world's highest mountain, Nepalese officials said on Monday.
Two more Indian climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to 8 of the Indian mountaineers who perished in their expedition to the world's highest peak during this season.
Nepal opened the climbing route to the world's highest peak on May 14, when a team of eight Sherpas successfully scaled the Mount Everest.
Cash had collapsed near a portion of the trail called the "Hillary Step", an elevation of approximately 8,770 metres.
Sonam Paljor and Hero Wangyal from Leh district scaled the World's highest peak during an army expedition in the past.
Seven members of elite NSG Commandos led by Lt Col Jay Prakash Kumar successfully scaled Mount Everest the highest peak on earth on 16 May 2019 at 0705 hrs.
On May 16, 2018, Kami Rita made history by summiting Everest for the 22nd time.
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli called upon the government-nominated climbers to derive the true height of the peak. "It will be the authentic data regarding the height of the tallest peak once you come up with the report," Oli told the team members at the Prime Minister's Office here.
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