Coronavirus reached Everest – the highest mountain peak in the world. The mountain was closed for more than a year, the climbing season opened quite recently.
The Russian BBC Service writes that one of the climbers, Norwegian Erland Ness, for six days he felt bad in the mountains, until April 15 for his evacuation was caused by a helicopter. He was taken to the hospital, where he was revealed by COVID-19. It is reported that now Ness recovered and is from friends in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu.
Ness believes that he could get infected in one of the traditional tea houses in the Valley of Khumba in Nepalese Himalayas. According to him, almost no one on the route – neither mountaineers nor locals – do not wear masks.
Later, the disease was also discovered from one of the local porters accompanying the Norwegian group. At the initial stages of climbing the Everest of some climbers as conductors, Sherpi is escorted – representatives of local nationalities.
For Nepal – this is an extremely unfavorable situation. The country depends on the income that brings mountaineering on Everest (about $ 4 million per year), and the season, did not have time to start, was threatened.