This year has been a quiet one for Mount Everest. In March, Nepal’s Tourism Minister, Yogesh Bhattarai, announced that all expeditions to the nation’s Himalayan peaks, including those to Everest, would be suspended for the spring climbing season – typically its busiest, which normally runs from March to May – because of the coronavirus pandemic.Nepal had just one confirmed case of Covid-19 at the time and the precautionary closure was welcomed by mountain guides. “While cancelling a climb is…
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