China will adopt the strictest preventive measures during the 2021 Everest climbing season. Tibetan climbing authorities will set up a “separation line” on the north slope of Mount Everest, prohibiting any contact between people from the north and south slopes on the summit.
According to the Chinese official media Xinhua News Agency, Nima Tsering, director of the Tibet Autonomous Region Sports Bureau, said on Sunday (May 9) that a small team of Tibetan climbing guides will be dispatched to the north slope in advance of the summit of the climbing team to set up a separation line on the side of the summit of Mount Everest, prohibiting any personnel from the north and south slopes to “cross the line and contact each other at the summit, and prohibiting Chinese climbers from communicating with the Nepalese side already The Chinese summit personnel and the Nepalese side has been hanging in the peak of the Hatha and other items have any contact”.
Nima Tsering added: “Our guides and climbers also wear jumpsuits, wind goggles and oxygen masks, which serve as isolation and protection. We will disinfect the whole body of our team members when we descend, and isolate them on the spot if necessary.”
In addition to the peak isolation line, Everest North Slope base camp this year will also take strict epidemic prevention and control measures, the camp outside the “epidemic prevention card point”, tourists and other people not related to mountaineering activities are not allowed to enter.
Everest is the world’s highest peak, located in China and Nepal border, climbing route is divided into the Nepal side of the South Slope and the Chinese side of the North Slope.
The climbing season is from April to May this year, and Nepal has issued Everest climbing permits to 408 climbers, aiming to revive the climbing industry and tourism.
But Nepal is now facing a second wave of the epidemic, with several climbers at Everest base camp in Nepal having been diagnosed with the new coronavirus since the start of the climbing season.
As for China, Xinhua News Agency quoted the Tibetan Mountaineering Association Secretary General Tsering Sangzhu as saying that 21 Chinese commercial climbers were approved to climb Everest from the North Slope during this year’s Everest climbing season, all of whom had nucleic acid test certificates and had green codes when entering Tibet.
According to the Associated Press, mountaineering expert Ang Tshering Sherpa said there could not be any kind of separation on the summit of Everest. The only place climbers on the north and south slopes can get close is the summit, but it’s a small space.
He added: “It is impossible for anyone infected with the new coronavirus to reach the summit because climbers with any respiratory difficulties would not be able to reach that height.”
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