Mountaineer Guy Cotter: the impact of Covid-19 on Everest
"Last year Nepal did very well at locking down the country, and not allowing any expeditions or trekkers to come into the country, and they actually shut off the Khumbu Valley, which is the gateway to Mount Everest, and it's very inaccessible ... so it was a good place to actually stop people getting in there, and stop Covid getting in there," Cotter says. "[But] local Nepalese operators were really hurting through not being able to operate, so they enabled domestic tourism to start up initially. That took the first Covid into the Khumbu Valley. Then they enabled some foreigners to go in, and...
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