'Harder than Everest': record-breaking female climber stranded in Nepal amid Covid crisis
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Splash
  • Features
  • Videos
  • Long Read
  • Games
  • Epaper
  • More
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Subscribe
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Splash
  • Features
  • Videos
  • Long Read
  • Games
  • Epaper
  • More
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Subscribe
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
'Harder than Everest': record-breaking female climber stranded in Nepal amid Covid crisis

Coronavirus chronicle

Reuters
22 June, 2021, 09:35 pm
Last modified: 22 June, 2021, 09:35 pm

Related News

  • Nepal reports first African swine fever outbreak, OIE says
  • Indo-Nepal ties ‘unshakable like Himalayas’: Modi
  • Nepali woman's 10th Everest climb breaks her own record
  • Oil prices in Bangladesh lower than India, Pakistan and Nepal
  • Nepali scales Mt Everest for record 26th time

'Harder than Everest': record-breaking female climber stranded in Nepal amid Covid crisis

Nepal has had a surge of infections including at the base camp of Everest, prompting several countries to block travel from there. The daily positive rate of infections in Nepal stands at more than 24%, among the highest in the world at this time

Reuters
22 June, 2021, 09:35 pm
Last modified: 22 June, 2021, 09:35 pm
Light illuminates Mount Everest, during sunset in Solukhumbu District also known as the Everest region, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo
Light illuminates Mount Everest, during sunset in Solukhumbu District also known as the Everest region, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

Hong Kong resident Tsang Yin-Hung, who made the fastest ascent of Mount Everest by any woman, and dozens of other mountaineers from China are unable to get out of Nepal because of Covid-19 restrictions imposed by Beijing, they said.

Nepal has had a surge of infections including at the base camp of Everest, prompting several countries to block travel from there. The daily positive rate of infections in Nepal stands at more than 24%, among the highest in the world at this time.

The travel restriction was imposed after the climbing season began and there were fresh outbreaks in Nepal.

Tsang, 44, who climbed Mount Everest in 25 hours and 50 minutes last month, said getting back home appeared harder than her ascent to the 8,848.86 metre (29,032 feet) peak.

"I think the summit climb for me was possible and achievable," she told Reuters at her hotel in Kathmandu. "But going back home (looks) hopeless. There is no way to go back."

Nepal officials say they have allowed two weekly flights from China, but these were not operational.

The Chinese embassy in Kathmandu did not immediately respond to a Reuters email on the lack of flights.

"There are no flights (from Nepal) to any place in China or Hong Kong," she said.

Climbers from other countries have already returned on mainly chartered flights.

China's Sun Yi Quan, 34, who climbed Everest thrice before but gave up on his fourth attempt in May due to a coronavirus outbreak at base camp, said his team of 13 climbers too had failed to get a flight back home.

Kathmandu has been partially shut down since May due to the surge in Covid-19 with 622,640 infections and 8,772 deaths in he nation so far.

Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, a senior official at the Seven Summit Treks company said more than 30 Chinese climbers were stranded in Kathmandu.

World+Biz / South Asia

Mount Everest / Nepal

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Infographic: TBS
    Tough conditions get in way of Indian wheat import
  • Zahid Hussain/TBS Sketch
    Our problematic macroeconomic duo
  • US growth seen outpacing China’s for first time since 1976
    US growth seen outpacing China’s for first time since 1976

MOST VIEWED

  • A worker disinfects a vehicle carrying medical oxygen, in Pyongyang. Photo: Collected
    North Korea using traditional medicine to fight Covid
  • Ryu Yong Chol, an official at North Korea's state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters, speaks during a daily coronavirus program on state-run television KRT, in this still image obtained from KRT footage released on May 20, 2022. REUTERS TV/KRT via REUTERS
    North Korea's Dr Fauci? Health official emerges as face of Covid campaign
  • Workers in protective suit spray disinfectant at a community, during the lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Shanghai, China, April 5, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song
    Shanghai detects new infections after five days of 'zero Covid'
  • Volunteers carry out temperature screening during an anti-virus campaign in Pyongyang, North Korea in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 4, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo
    North Korea hails 'good results' on Covid as fever cases pass 2 million
  • Medical staff members check the temperature of people as they enter at Capital Airport, following an outbreak of Covid-19, in Beijing, China, 5 November, 2020. Photo: Reuters
    China relaxes some Covid test rules for US, other travellers
  • Representational image.
    China Junshi's potential Covid drug shows promise in small trial

Related News

  • Nepal reports first African swine fever outbreak, OIE says
  • Indo-Nepal ties ‘unshakable like Himalayas’: Modi
  • Nepali woman's 10th Everest climb breaks her own record
  • Oil prices in Bangladesh lower than India, Pakistan and Nepal
  • Nepali scales Mt Everest for record 26th time

Features

Mohammad (Mejbah) Mejbahuddin, Former Senior Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh. TBS Sketch

‘No project is being delayed too long at the moment’

14h | Panorama
Dr Shamsul Hoque, Professor, Civil Engineering, BUET. TBS Sketch

‘Planning commission only in the name, there are no planners’ 

14h | Panorama
Masrur Reaz. TBS Sketch

‘To ensure accountability, contract financing should be based on ‘performance based payments’

14h | Panorama
Professor Mustafizur Rahman. Illustration: TBS

Project delays and escalating costs are driven by frequent revisions and lack of good governance

17h | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

Ways to retain body fragrance

Ways to retain body fragrance

15h | Videos
Gazipur restaurant that serves 150 food items

Gazipur restaurant that serves 150 food items

19h | Videos
How to prepare for a job

How to prepare for a job

20h | Videos
Putin's strategies to face Nato

Putin's strategies to face Nato

1d | Videos

Most Read

1
Tk100 for bike, Tk2,400 for bus to cross Padma Bridge
Bangladesh

Tk100 for bike, Tk2,400 for bus to cross Padma Bridge

2
A packet of US five-dollar bills is inspected at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington March 26, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
Banking

Dollar hits Tk100 mark in open market

3
The story of Bangladesh becoming a major bicycle exporter
Industry

The story of Bangladesh becoming a major bicycle exporter

4
PK Halder: How a scamster rose from humble beginnings to a Tk11,000cr empire
Crime

PK Halder: How a scamster rose from humble beginnings to a Tk11,000cr empire

5
Representative Photo: Pixabay.
Bangladesh

Microplastics found in 5 local sugar brands

6
Mushfiq Mobarak. Photo: Noor-A-Alam
Panorama

Meet the Yale professor who anchors his research in Bangladesh and scales up interventions globally

The Business Standard
Top
  • Home
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • About Us
  • Bangladesh
  • International
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Economy
  • Sitemap
  • RSS

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net

Copyright © 2022 THE BUSINESS STANDARD All rights reserved. Technical Partner: RSI Lab