FILE PHOTO: Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Monika DeupalaKATHMANDU: A Nepali government official said on Monday that many foreign climbers were continuing their attempts to summit Mount Everest despite reports of a COVID-19 outbreak at the base camp of the world's tallest peak.
"So far we have about one hundred confirmed cases in Everest base camp, confirmed by doctors, by hospitals, by insurance companies, by expedition leaders, by helicopter pilots who are flying out the patients and of course by the climbers themselves," Furtenbach told Reuters TV in Kathmandu on Monday.
When asked about the one hundred cases mentioned by Furtenbach, she said:"We have not received any report about that.""Even some climbers whose teams had stopped climbing are continuing their expeditions," she told Reuters without giving any names. On Sunday, about 180 foreign climbers and their Sherpa guides reached the peak and more are expected to go up this week, she said.
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