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Swiss among first Everest fatalities of the season Mount Everest (file photo) Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Swiss and an American have died on Mount Everest in the season's first casualties on the world's highest mountain, expedition organisers said on Thursday, as the Nepali region struggles with an escalating Covid-19 outbreak. This content was published on May 13, 2021 - 12:16 May 13, 2021 - 12:16 Isobel Leybold-Johnson Isobel trained as a journalist in Great Britain and speaks all three Swiss national languages. She reports on education for swissinfo.ch.�...

>>Bhadra Sharma, The New York Times Published: 14 May 2021 01:05 AM BdST Updated: 14 May 2021 01:05 AM BdST Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. REUTERS Two climbers, a Swiss-Pakistani and an American, have died on Mount Everest, the first fatalities of a busy climbing season as a second wave of the coronavirus batters Nepal. "); } The expedition company that organised their climbs, Seven Summit Treks, said both men were experienced mountaineers who ...

The mountaineers ready and waiting to climb Everest, despite the dangers After Nepal tentatively reopened its borders to trekkers, the first case of Covid-19 reached Everest Base Camp last week Covid adds another complication to scaling Everest, but climbers remain undeterred Credit: Getty  On the face of things, trekking in Nepal should be an ideal activity for the Covid age. It’s outdoors, in the open air. It takes place in a remote wilderness. And if you avoid the main trails and trek outside of the peak pre-winter trekking season, it’s possible to put whole valleys between yourself a...

Ueli Steck ascending Annapurna in the Himalayan mountains. In 1990, Slovenian mountaineer Tomo Česen claimed to have scaled the south face of Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world. It was declared the greatest feat ever seen in Himalayan mountaineering, but he warned that he had no photos to prove it. Soon afterward, however, he provided some snapshots – stolen from fellow climbers who had tried to conquer this slope years earlier. In 2015, French researcher Rodolphe Popier managed to reveal a second lie by the Slovenian: photos taken with a telephoto lens by a friend of Ä...

The Nepali mountaineer reclaiming the Himalaya Joe Bindloss 1 day ago "The mountains put things in perspective and make you realise how small you are." ©Fahad Mohammed/500px Nirmal Purja is a man of firsts.  Having climbed all 14 of the world’s peaks above 8000m in one season, earlier this year his all-Nepali team reached the summit of K2 in a line, placing no climber ahead of the rest.  The 37-year-old  is leading the way for South Asian climbers, and leaving the notion of Sherpas ‘assisting’ western climbers firmly in the past. When Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purj...