LOOK: South African group reaches Everest Base Camp despite global Covid restrictions
A group of 15 South Africans reached Everest Base Camp despite the global Covid pandemic.
It was the trip of a lifetime for participants, Prof Sonia Human, Rose Mills, Marius Fourie and John Thöle, Emily Farrell, Rory and Linda Macfarlane, Klasie Wessels, Sue Pearson, and Devin Baird.
The group flew from Katmandu in Nepal to the Tenzing-Hillary Airport, known as one of the world’s most dangerous airports, in Lukla, on April 7.
They started the trek a few hours after their arrival.
Wessels, who led the trek, said the Everest base camp journey usually took 15 days to complete (eight days to reach the base of Everest and five to trek back down the mountain).
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Stannard Rock Lighthouse was completed in 1883.
It is 39 kilometres from land, a desolate beacon guarding against an underwater mountain in a US lake, a place so unremittingly grim that it has been dubbed “the loneliest place in the world” . welcome to the Stannard Rock Lighthouse. The 30-metre-high structure in Lake Superior, Michigan is the most distant lighthouse from shore in the US and one of the most remote in the world.
US Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City
The US Coast Guard had to make an emergency stop. Earlier this month the US Coast Guard had to make an emergency visit after rough weather had blown out one of the windows, posing a risk to the lighthouse’s light.
The Everest Base Camp Trek is undoubtedly the definitive trek in the Himalayas.It is one of the most famous trails not only in Nepal, but in the world.