Nepal seeks oxygen cylinders from mountaineers for COVID-19 patients Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-11 10:28
Patients receive oxygen as they sit on chairs outside the passage of a hospital due to a lack of free beds at the hospital for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients, as the second major coronavirus wave surges in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 10, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
KATHMANDU - As Nepal is scrambling to find enough oxygen for a swelling number of COVID-19 patients, the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has also taken the initiative to collect oxygen cylinders from mountaineers.
According to the association, around 5,000 oxygen cylinders are being used by mountaineers for climbing the world s tallest Mt Qomolangma and other Himalayan peaks at the moment.
Nepal issues record climbing permits
Nepal issues record climbing permits
IANS / Updated: Apr 26, 2021, 06:00 IST
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KATHMANDU Nepali authorities have issued a record number of expedition-permits for Mt Qomolangma, defying expectations of reduced number of permit issuance compared to past years amid Covid-19 pandemic.
The Himalayan country issued a record 394 permits for the Mt.Qomolangma, the world’s tallest peak by Friday, which broke the earlier record of 381 permits issued in 2019, according to the
Department of Tourism, which issues such permits,
Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
“We had not expected that such a large number of mountaineers would be cl imbing the Mt Qomolangma in the middle of the pandemic,”
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2021-03-03 14:35:47 GMT2021-03-03 22:35:47(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KATHMANDU, March 3 (Xinhua) A team of climbers have moved to fix the ropes on the way to the top of Mt. Qomolangma, with the aim to enable spring expeditions, a staff member of a non-government organization that mobilized the team for rope fixing.
Every year, a team of icefall doctors elite climbers fix the ropes to ease expedition members to climb the world s tallest peak before the expedition begins. A nine-member team including six icefall doctors and a supervisor as well as two cooks to prepare food for them, moved to the base camp of Mt. Qomolangma from Namche Bazaar, Rabi Nepal, contact person of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, a non-government organization, involved in rope fixing and clean-up drive of Mt Qomolangma for the last two decades, told Xinhua on Tuesday. Namche Bazaar is located at the base of the Mt. Qomolangma, whose new height was jointly announced by Nepal and Chi
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