Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai said expeditions to all peaks in the March-May spring season had been suspended. IOLTravel coronavirus
Kathmandu - Nepal has closed all of its Himalayan peaks including Mount Everest this climbing season because of fears of the coronavirus outbreak, a government minister said on Friday.
Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai said expeditions to all peaks in the March-May spring season had been suspended."It is as a precaution for that," he added, when asked it its was because of the coronavirus. The suspension of expeditions in Nepal will affect hundreds of foreign climbers now preparing for the spring season, a window or relatively good weather between the end of the bitterly cold winter and the rainy season, which begins in June.
It is the second time in recent years that the climbing season has been disrupted. Expeditions were suspended in 2015 after a major earthquake struck Nepal on April 25 that year, killing some 9,000 people.
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