All Photos: Jangbu Sherpa For 39-year-old Jangbu Sherpa, 2021 was supposed to be like every other climbing season for the past two decades. He would train his clients and help them climb the highest mountain in the world. The only difference this year (apart from the fact that Everest was 86cm taller) was that there […]
The summit ridge of Mt Everest on 22 May before the bad weather from the remnants of Cyclone Yaas stopped climbing. Photo: MINGMA G ore than 100 international climbers and their Nepali guides who braved a Covid-19 outbreak at base camp are now stuck at 6,500m on Camp 2 of Mt Everest because of high winds and […]
Mt Everest Base Camp last month. Photo: Monika Deupala ith a ferocious second Covid-19 wave raging and a closing weather window lapping at their feet, expeditions on Mt Everest this spring have rushed to make a series of successful early attempts to climb the world’s highest mountain. All in all, at least 130 climbers reached […]
KATHMANDU, May 8: Kamirita Sherpa has scaled Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) for the record 25th time.
According to Mira Acharya, Director at the Department of Tourism, Kamirita climbed the world’s highest peak on Wednesday for this record summit. Acharya also shared that the team of 12 Ice-fall Doctors led by Kamirita Sherpa reached the top of the highest mountain in the world.
She said that the successful ascent of the 8,848.86 metres mountain by Kamirita and his rope-fixing team has given a positive message that mountaineering in Nepal was safe in such distressful time due to COVID-19..
Those in the rope-fixing team who climbed Sagarmatha along with Kamirita are Tenzing Sherpa, Mingma Tenzing Sherpa, Mingma Dorje Sherpa, Furtenzi Sherpa, Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Phurba Tshering Sherpa, Tsheten Dorje Sherpa and Tenzing Gyalzen Sherpa and Phurba Kusnga Sherpa.
With the rope-fixing team paving their path to from the base camp to the summit of the Sagarmatha, climbers acclimatizing in various camps of the Sagarmatha and waiting for the fair-weather window for summit bid, have got door to summit open, added Acharya.
Acharya congratulated Kamirita and his team and informed them about the first summit of the Sagarmatha for this spring season. The government had halted all mountaineering and other adventurous activities in the last spring due to the outbreak of Covid-19.
This year, the government permitted mountaineering provided the aspiring climbers produce their PCR test reports which show that they had not contracted Covid-19. The government also put in place mechanisms to oversee that the aspiring mountaineers adhere to health safety protocols against Coronavirus infection.
This year, the Department has issued an expedition permit for 408 climbers (93 female and 315 male) from 43 groups which has fetched over Rs 660 million in royalties for the government of Nepal, the Department said.
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALA epal’s spring mountaineering season, just recovering from avalanches, earthquakes, and a year of Covid-19 lockdown is once more looking uncertain with reports of coronavirus cases at the base camps of Mt Everest and Dhaulagiri. The Nepal government has tried to keep a tight lid on information from the mountains, but hospital and expedition sources confirm that there have been […]
amche Bazar, the gateway to Mt Everest, is currently abuzz with climbers and trekkers as they prepare to head towards Base Camp after the pandemic closed Nepal’s tourism for a year. The narrow stone-paved streets of this township at 3,500m are once more filled with trekkers and climbers from all over the world, spending a day […]
The summit of Mt Everest taken in 2019 by Karma Tenzing. In the foreground is the remnant of the Hillary Step that came down during the 2015 earthquake. Photo: Karma Tenzing / Nepali Times Archive year to the day after Nepal went into its first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020, climbers are back at […]
