https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/05/nepal-report-19-positive-covid-test-dhaulagiri-base-camp

Decision to allow expeditions to go ahead dealt blow after outbreak on world’s seventh highest mountain

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About this contentRajneeshBhandariinKathmanduWed 5 May 2021 09.37 EDT

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Nepal’s decision to allow people to continue to climb its Himalayan peaks asa vicious Covid-19 wave sweeps the countrywas dealt a further blow after 19 more climbers tested positive for the virus.

Last monthit was reported that the pandemic had reached Everest base campand though officials later denied it, climbers have reported a wave of infections that were being covered up.

Now it has emerged that 19 people – foreign climbers and sherpas – have tested positive at the base camp of Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh highest…