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Newshub can reveal COVID-19 is tearing through one of the most remote places on the planet: Everest Base Camp.
The Nepalese government denies it s happening, but a Nepalese Sherpa who has recently come off the world s highest mountain has called the outbreak scary.
Nepal shares a border with India which has remained open through the pandemic, and the new Delta variant is now widespread throughout Nepal and the Everest area.
Mingma Gyalje Sherpa led a team of Nepalese mountaineers on a world-record-setting first winter ascent of K2 - the second-highest mountain next to Mt Everest - in January.
Justine Pellew-Harvey, 18, moved from Italy to Cornwall after her mum died of breast cancer when she was just 13 and today told Lorraine how the Army Cadet Force helped her cope.
Will the pandemic crush Nepal’s trekking industry?
With nearly all tourism in the region halted, Sherpa communities here face a precarious future.
Hikers trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. The coronavirus has eviscerated Nepal’s tourism economy.Photograph by Kriangkrai Thitimakorn, Getty Images
ByBen Weissenbach
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Three vertical miles above the Indian Ocean, eight days by foot from the nearest road, the hamlet of Dzongla sits in a windswept, snow-streaked pass beneath Mount Everest. On either side, Lobuche peak (20,075 feet) and Cholatse (21,128 feet) rise so sheerly that they seem to overhang the cluster of stone-walled and tin-roofed buildings below one of the highest and most remote human settlements on Earth.