HEALTHIER THAN EVEREST CLIMBER? Mount Everest 🏔 base camp outbreak—expedition cancelled after climbers sickened by #COVID19—An American climber & 3 Sherpa guides from a 51-person expedition were evacuated from base camp & hospitalized in Kathmandu Nepal🇳🇵
nytimes.com/2021/05/15/wor…
nytimes.com/2021/05/15/wor…
2) “A second wave of the coronavirus is ravaging Nepal, overwhelming its feeble health care system. On Saturday, the authorities reported 8,167 new cases and 187 deaths.
On the peaks, the spread of the virus is unclear, but signs of trouble are growing…”
On the peaks, the spread of the virus is unclear, but signs of trouble are growing…”
3) “Starting this month, hundreds of foreign climbers, Sherpas and other support staff have lived at Everest’s high-altitude base camp, preparing for an ascent to the world’s tallest peak.
4) “More and more of them are presenting with Covid symptoms, and testing positive with rapid antigen tests undertaken by three doctors Nepal’s government posted to base camp, says the managing director of Furtenbach Adventures, which organized the canceled expedition.
5) Let this sink in— Nepalese sherpas who guide climbers to summit 🏔 Mount Everest are among the most genetically & physically-adapted to low oxygen environments… and yet 3 of the world’s best mountain climbing sherpas STILL needed a airlift and got hospitalized for #COVID19!
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