Mount Everest. Photo: Reuters Camping sites on the slopes of Mount Everest on the Nepal side have been affected by a series of COVID-19 cases since late April. The Nepal government, not wanting to cut off revenue from tourism, has yet to cancel the spring climbing season, which usually runs from April to early June, before the rainy season. According to the Xinhua News Agency , a group of Tibetan climbing guides will climb Everest and set up a “boundary” to prevent any contact between climbers from both sides. It is not clear how the divider will be set up on Mount Everest – which is only the size of a dining table, and has an extremely harsh climate. And it’s not clear whether the Tibetan guides will just put up a fence, or have to stay in the area of ​​Mount Everest to keep the divider. This is known as the “death zone”, where many people died due to lack of oxygen. According to the Reuters , the 8,848m high peak is just a small snow mound, with just enough space for about 5-6 climbers and guides. China has not allowed any foreign climbers to climb Everest from the Tibetan side since the COVID-19 outbreak last year. China on Sunday recorded 12 new COVID-19 cases, all imported cases. Meanwhile, Nepal reported 9,023 new cases on Friday – a record increase in the country.

China drew a line on Mount Everest to prevent Covid-19. Photo: NatGeo Reuters news agency, citing Chinese national media, said so on May 9. According to Beijing, it is a precautionary measure. Everest base camp on the Nepal side was hit by a spike in Covid-19 infections in late April. The Nepal government, which lacks tourism revenue, has yet to cancel spring climbing, which usually starts in April and lasts until early June, before the monsoon. It is not immediately clear how the upper boundary will be established on the small, dangerous, hard-to-navigate mountaintop and about the size of a dining table. A small group of climbing guides in Tibet will climb Everest and set up a divider at the summit to prevent any contact between climbers on both sides of the peak, Xinhua reported. said the head of the Tibet Sports Authority. A group of 21 Chinese nationals were on their way to Mount Everest on the Tibetan side, Xinhua reported. The group of Tibetan guides will set up a divider before the group of 21 arrives. It is not clear whether the Tibetan guides were the ones enforcing the separation, or whether they stayed in the so-called “death zone”, where many people have died due to lack of oxygen, to maintain this boundary no. The summit of the 8,848m-high Mount Everest is a small snow mound, with only enough space for half a dozen climbers and guides to be on it at the same time. China has not allowed any foreign climbers to climb the mountain from the Tibetan side since the Covid-19 outbreak last year due to concerns about contagion. Tourists in the scenic Everest region in Tibet are also prohibited from visiting the base camp on the Tibetan side.

Kami Rita and 11 other guides reached the summit of Everest around 6 p.m. after hours of climbing. Mira Acharya, an official with the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism, said that Kami Rita and his group were climbers of Everest this year. The climbing team fixed ropes on the icy route for hundreds of other climbers to climb to the top in late May. Last year, the routes to Mount Everest in the south, in Nepal, because of the epidemic. This year, 408 foreign climbers were issued with climbing permits. Admire the 51-year-old man who conquered Mount Everest 25 times. Kami Rita, 51 years old, first climbed Everest in 1994. Since then, he has conquered the roof of the world almost every year. He is considered as one of the Sherpa guides with expertise and good skills, contributing to the safety and success of hundreds of people to conquer the 8,848.86 meter high Everest. In addition to reaching Mount Everest 25 times, Kami Rita has conquered several other peaks among the highest in the world, including Mount K2, Cho-Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse. He was also present at Everest base camp in 2015 when an avalanche swept through, killing 19 people. After that tragedy, he came under great pressure from his family to give up climbing. Good weather on Mount Everest only appears for a few days in May, favorable for climbers to conquer the world’s highest peak.

During the 2009 DICE conference in Las Vegas on the development of the video game market, a representative of the market research department of the NPD group said that in the year 200, 6 million new customers have joined the game. and the percentage of online gamers also increased by 2%. These figures have stoked concerns about video game addiction. Especially in 2005, a young Korean man passed away after playing Starcraft for a long time. The guy in the above story was 28 years old then, and played continuously for 50 hours at a net cafe in Taegu. He only took a very short time to sleep and go to the bathroom. Police believe that the cause of death was a heart attack after being too tired. Died of bile This case is not just one person, but 21 people with the same cause. On a warm, sunny day in January 1919 in Boston, USA, a large dump truck exploded in a residential area at the north end of the city. The car is 15.2 meters high with a diameter of 27.4 meters located near a residential area mainly Italian immigrants. It is not clear what caused the car to explode and send debris up to 61 meters away. Illustration. The explosion sent a large 7.6-meter-high wall of bile flowing toward the residential area at a speed of 56.3 km/h and entangled residents in a thick layer of brown liquid. It took a few months to clean it all up, costing almost a million dollars in the six years after the explosion. And by 2009, the number was more than 12 million dollars. People here said they still smell molasses on hot summer days. Died by the famous Hollywood sign Hollywood has broken many famous dreams over the years. Among them, the saddest must be the case of Peg Entwistle, a young actress from Wales. Before coming to this luxuriant land, she had achieved some minor successes in her acting career and even landed a role on Broadway in New York. However, like many others, she was attracted by the light of Hollywood in the heart of Los Angeles. After a while of trying, Peg Entwistle was cast in the movie “Thirteen Women”, but most of her scenes were cut from the film. On September 16, 1932, Peg Entwistle climbed aboard the famous Hollywood sign, left his personal belongings with a letter, and jumped down to commit suicide. Her body was discovered 2 days later. The content of her letter was simply: “I’m scared, I’m just a coward. Sorry for everything. If I had done this earlier, I probably wouldn’t have suffered this much pain. PE”. Coincidentally, after her sudden death, Peg Entwistle received a letter inviting her to play the role of a woman on the verge of suicide. Died of junk Langley and Homer Collyer moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York in 1909 when they were in their 20s. As sons in an upper-class family, the two brothers lived in seclusion and hoarded things. It is estimated that there are 180 tons of discarded items including everything from broken cribs, broken pianos, etc. in every corner of their apartment. Homer went blind in the 1930s and was bedridden with rheumatism. The younger brother took care of his brother and kept hundreds of thousands of newspapers in case the older brother could see them again. The house was again set up in traps so that others could not enter, and Langley himself was trapped and buried in a pile of junk. Homer could do nothing but slowly die with his brother. Police spent weeks searching for Langley throughout Manhattan before finding him dead in his own apartment. Died from an unidentified object What caused the deaths of 9 climbers in the Ural Mountains in Russia on February 2, 1959 is still a mystery. On January 28, 10 students of Ural Polytechnic Institute went to winter climbing together, but one of them fell ill and had to stay at the mountain house. The remaining 9 people have never come out of the forest, and the things the investigators find are very scary and confusing. Their tent was found torn from the inside, half submerged in snow with the youth’s belongings and shoes. The first two bodies were discovered on the edge of the forest, barefoot and wearing only underwear. The next three corpses were in a similar condition. Two months later, the remaining bodies were also found buried in the snow, 75 meters away from the first victim. There were four students with serious internal injuries, broken ribs and a skull fracture. One of them, lost his tongue. The strange thing is that there were no signs of struggle or external wounds. The last four victims were dressed in other people’s clothes and had high levels of radiation. Theories put forward are avalanche, alien attack and military experiment. This incident was not closed until 1990, when other climbers at the same time reported seeing orange balls in the sky that night. This and the level of radiation on the victims led people to believe that the deaths of the victims were caused by the secret army, although the Russian government did not announce anything.

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“ When I got a positive result, I was shocked. And then I realized that my adventure was over “Ness said.” My dream is to go to the top of the mountain and enjoy the scenery there “. Some climbers have tested positive for COVID-19, but the Nepalese government says no infections have been reported on Everest. (Photo: CNN) Polish climber Pawel Michalski then posted on Facebook an article “30 people have been evacuated” from the campsite and found positive for COVID-19. Some climbers are quarantined in their tents, as there have been a few confirmed cases of COVID-19 in early childhood, Everest ER, a volunteer organization that provides aid to climbers. canopy off the campsite. Nepalese government regulations prohibiting climbers from sharing photos of others without consent restricted information coming from the mountain, but rumors are spreading as more cases are reported. infected, and not just at Everest. At least 19 people have been evacuated from the climbing camps in Dhaulagiri – the world’s seventh highest peak – 345 kilometers west of Everest, according to Mingma Sherpa, president of the Seven Summits Trek Company. Seven people had a positive result and another 12 had to be tested after symptoms appeared, he added. Nepalese Army spokesman Major General Santosh Ballave Paudel said three cleaners at the Dhaulagiri campsite had COVID-19. One person was evacuated on Wednesday and the other two will be evacuated during clear weather. Climbers are worried that Nepal will close Everest again, said Lukas Furtenbach, an expedition chief. “ I guess there will be more infections ”Furtenbach told CNN from his campsite at Mera Peak, south of Everest. “ Everyone is worried about a message from the Department of Tourism that says: ‘You all have to go home’ “. Patient number 0 on Mount Everest According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, Nepal’s economy is mainly based on tourism revenue, generating 240.7 billion rupees ($ 2 billion) in 2018. Those who want to climb mountains must have a license. from the Nepal Tourism Board in Kathmandu and the cost falls to around 11,000 USD. Many Nepalese people depend on tourism and climbing services for a living. In 2018, Nepal’s tourism industry supported more than 1 million direct and indirect jobs. After canceling last year’s mountaineering tours due to the pandemic, Nepal’s Tourism Ministry granted 408 permits to Everest climbers this year. But there will be more than 408 people making their journey of exploration stopping at the campsite and along the mountainside, followed by a climbing support team consisting of chefs, guides and geographic assistants. Phuong. This will complicate the efforts to create “bubbles” and social distance. “ The campsite is a miniature city ”, Said Alan Arnette, veteran observer, who reached Mount Everest in 2011 and now runs a climbing website. Furtenbach estimated there were about 1,200 people staying at the campsite this year. These conditions make the stretching more difficult. “ Usually there will be lots of social activities, events, campsites, groups visiting and making new friends. ”, Said Furtenbach. Now, most travel agencies are trying to maintain the “bubble” of isolation. Some Sherpas and local staff have to give up their usual habit of going home on holidays. Many expedition teams have had to travel longer distances without a break to spend as little time as possible at Everest. Some climbers have tested positive for COVID-19, but the Nepalese government says no infections have been reported on Everest. (Photo: CNN) Viruses can attack quickly Ness – the first case of COVID-19 infection on a publicly identifiable Everest – said he began to feel sick five days after the group’s trip to the campsite. “ I feel sick … I have a headache in the mountains, maybe a little fever, I don’t know, but the oxygen in my blood is very low “. “ At the campsite, my health got worse every day “, Ness said, adding that doctors finally asked to take him to the hospital and there he knew he had COVID-19. The positive results beat Ness’s three years of training for the journey, but he considers himself lucky for making a quick recovery. “ I thought if I got COVID-19 in Kathmandu, I wouldn’t get seriously ill – because I recovered very quickly after leaving the mountain. “, I said. “ But it’s terrible to be infected at 5,500 meters above sea level “. Confronted with confusion Reports of COVID-19 infections have resulted in a tense atmosphere at the Everest campsite. “ We get emails from other teams, trying to decide whether to go home or not, because it’s clear things are getting serious. “, Said Adrian Ballinger, an expedition leader who withdrew from the Everest expedition because of concerns about COVID-19. “ I heard the guide, the Sherpas and one of the helicopter companies talk about how many COVID-19 rescues they were doing. “, I said. As the rumors swirled, concerns also increased due to the lack of in-site test kits. “ We hope the government will confirm cases, keep things transparent, maybe even send a support team to the campsite to do mass testing to find the super people. infection “, Said Furtenbach, head of the expedition. “ I think every travel agency will be happy to pay for this. It will probably save the climbing season, because it would be risky to have more and more infections causing this season to end sooner. “. A sign encourages those outside to stay away from the camp. (Photo: The Washington Post) Everest ER, an aid service run by the Himalayan Rescue Nonprofit, wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday that there have been reports of nagging coughs during this climbing season. . “ This year has been a difficult year due to the COVID-19 pandemic “, Said Everest ER. “ We cannot afford rapid on-site tests at this time “. Talking about the Seven Summit Treks expedition at Everest, Mingma Sherpa said his group has departed from Camp 2 and is expected to arrive at Camp 4 on Thursday. “ If we run the Covid-19 test among climbers, some of them will probably be positive for the virus. But until now no one has any serious health complications except the common cold and cough “Mingma said. Lukas Furtenbach at the beginning of the journey to conquer Mount Everest. (Photo: CNN) Seven Summit Treks Company has 130 customers registered to climb Mount Everest this spring. According to CNN, many Everest climbers do not want to talk to journalists about the COVID-19 situation because they fear they will be denied a climbing license in the future. This has made it more difficult to estimate the number of people infected, and rumors continue to circulate, even among mountain climbing groups. “ I know people who used to have COVID-19, those infected have come to Kathmandu and now they are recovering, and I know there are people who have not had any cases in their camps. “, Says Arnette, describing his conversations with climbers in recent weeks. “ We were all trying to figure out what was going on and we were all confused “, He added. Ethical issue Of all the parts of the world that are facing COVID-19, Mount Everest is probably the worst. “ Everyone’s respiratory system is having difficulty and overactive, so it is much more susceptible to upper respiratory tract disease. ”Said Ballinger, the head of the expedition. Climbers face an intense physical warfare with every step of the mountain, he said. “ You cannot sleep in the highlands, so you will feel tired for many days without sleep. You cannot eat, because the digestive system is considered unnecessary because anything you put in your stomach makes you feel nauseous. “, I said. Persistent coughing spells that are so common during journeys at Everest – known as the Khumbu cough, named after the valley leading to Everest – make detecting COVID-19 especially difficult. “ Your entire body is working to the limit, so the virus will be a real threat to your health and even life. “, expedition chief Furtenbach said. And evacuation can become more dangerous once the teams have left the campsite and continue on up. “ If the weather worsens and someone begins to have complications, evacuating without a helicopter would take days and be very dangerous. ”, Said Furtenbach. For now, however, the spirit for the journey is still intact. “ Everyone was delighted “, Furtenbach said.” We had customers who waited for two years and it was their life’s dream “. Furtenbach’s team brought their own COVID-19 test kit to Everest and regularly checked team members. (Photo: CNN) But Nepal and its neighbor India are being engulfed in a dire second wave of COVID-19. Nepal recorded the highest number of cases per day on Wednesday. So some climbers are also considering whether or not to continue. “ I think we’ll start to see some climbers leave because they only feel they are doing it morally wrong, when the Kathmandu outbreak was too strong. ”Ballinger predicted. “ The villagers are sitting there with thousands of oxygen tanks “. “ If more and more cases come to a campsite, the authorities in Nepal will have to do something about it “, Added Furtenbach, again proposing an early end of the climbing season. “ I think they tried to do the right thing, they tried to save the climbing season. But maybe that’s not the right thing to do “.

Mount Everest may no longer be immune to COVID-19. Photo: DW Even the highest peak in the world is no longer immune to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There has been at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 from a base camp on the southern edge of Mount Everest in Nepal. After suffering from high-altitude cerebral edema syndrome (HAPE), this person was taken by helicopter to a hospital in the capital Kathmandu, tested and diagnosed positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus. The members of the group immediately had to undergo quarantine. A mountain climber with COVID-19 is identified as a Norwegian citizen. He said he may have been infected during the climb from the foot of the mountain to the main camp mentioned above. It is reported that at least three people in the climbing crew were infected with SARS-CoV-2. For its part, the Nepal Tourism Board intends to deny this, saying that the incident is still under investigation and that information about the infection is just rumors. As of April 21, Nepal has granted licenses to 377 individuals who want to climb mountains and conquer Mount Everest in 2021, only slightly less than the record number of 2019. With a population of 30 million, Nepal has recorded approximately 285,000 cases and 3,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic. At the end of March, the government loosened restrictions on tourists. To gain entry, international travelers only need to present a certificate of vaccination against COVID-19 or a PCR test negative for SARS-CoV-2 within 72 hours of arrival. If an additional negative test is performed at the capital airport, the traveler is free to travel in Nepal.