Thirty Chinese climbers, including a woman who set a speed record up Everest last month, have still not managed to get home from Kathmandu. Because of Nepal’s COVID crisis, with daily infection rates still soaring at 24 percent, Beijing has not sent any planes to repatriate its citizens.
Although regular passenger planes are not flying, Nepal has allowed two charters per week from China. So far, none have come.
Getting home is harder than climbing Everest, says Tsang Yin-Hung of Hong Kong. Tsang, 44 summited the mountain in 25 hours 50 minutes from Base Camp, a new women’s mark.
“The summit climb for me was possible,” she said. “But going back home [is] hopeless…There are no flights to any place in China or Hong Kong.”
Tashi Lakpa Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks estimates that 30 Chinese climbers remain in Kathmandu.
how about driving to Lhasa and flying from there or taking a train?
If she drives to Lhasa, she’s pretty much back home. Didn’t her country invade Tibet and claim it as their own?
Yes it was the great leap forward or sideways or some sort of leap…
She should have descended the Chinese North Ridge and would have been home. What would they do send her back up?
Sorry the infection rates are not soaring at 25%
The “rate” in this case does not mean that 24% of the population has COVID. Rather, of those tested, 24% come back positive. It’s become a common metric to indicate the prevalence of the disease in a population. That was the figure cited in one of the articles consulted for this story.
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[…] Chinese climbers, who climbed Mount Everest last month, remain stranded in Kathmandu as the Chinese government delays sending a repatriation […]
great success to achieve Mt Everest summit, Congratulations to entire teams.