KATHMANDU, NEPAL (NYTIMES) - In April at Mount Everest base camp, where climbers acclimatise to the extreme altitude before heading to the summit of the world s highest peak, Mr Jangbu Sherpa fell ill with a cough and fever.
At 5,361m, his symptoms quickly worsened. The expedition company that had hired Mr Jangbu to help a Bahraini prince climb Everest had him airlifted to a hospital in the capital, Kathmandu, where he tested positive for Covid-19.
He spent a week at the hospital and six days at home, and then was back at base camp. Experienced guides like him from Nepal s high-mountain-dwelling Sherpa community were in short supply because of the pandemic, and the expedition company stood to lose thousands of dollars if the prince s climb was cancelled.
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Sikkim woman scales Everest amid pandemic She is part of a 12-member Indian expedition team comprising six women and men that had embarked on the journey to summit four Himalayan peaks
Sikkimese mountaineer Manita Pradhan, 36, scaled the world’s highest peak in the early hours of Tuesday, her feat sending the mountaineering fraternity on cloud nine amid the pandemic.
Manita is the third woman from Sikkim to conquer Everest. Before her, Phul Maya Tamang and Yangde Sherpa were the first two women from the Himalayan state to do so in 2008.
However, Manita’s feat is special. It has come at a time of the raging global pandemic, when the contagion had also reached the base camp of Everest. There were reports that between 15 and 20 mountaineers had tested positive for Covid-19 from late April to early May.