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Kathmandu (AFP) - A US mountaineer has died on Everest in the fourth fatality on the world's highest peak this climbing season. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, was on an acclimatisation rotation at around 6,400 metres (21,000 feet) when he died on Monday, his expedition organiser said. "He was feeling unwell and passed away at Camp 2. Efforts are underway to bring (back) his body," Pasang Tshering Sherpa of Beyul Adventure told AFP. "We are trying to send a helicopter but it is snowing and the weather is not favourable," he said. Beyul Adventure is a local partner of US-based expedition organiser Inte...
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Kathmandu (AFP) - Mountaineer Akash Neggi is fully prepared to take on the world's highest mountain -- after spending several weeks sleeping in a tent in his living room in New Jersey. As Nepal battles Covid-19, a growing number of climbers are using oxygen-deprivation tents ahead of their expeditions to reduce exposure to the coronavirus by cutting down the length of their Himalayan adventure. Mount Everest aspirants typically spend eight days trekking from Kathmandu to base camp at 5,364 metres (17,598 feet), using the journey to acclimatise to high-altitude conditions. But this year, more t...
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Washington (AFP) - The World Bank on Thursday announced financing for Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to vaccinate their populations against Covid-19. Afghanistan will receive $113 million -- including $60 million from the International Development Association (IDA), part of the Washington-based development lender that helps the world's poorest nations -- to "deploy safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines," it said. "The World Bank has worked closely with the Afghan government and development partners to respond effectively to Covid-19, improve testing and treatment, and strengthen the country'...
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Surkhet (Nepal) (AFP) - Maggie Doyne still remembers the moment that changed her life forever. A chance encounter with six-year-old Hima, a little girl forced into manual labour to help her impoverished family, helped transform Doyne from gap-year teenager into a philanthropist on a mission. Seeing the child -- one of around a dozen -- working on a dry river bed breaking rocks, she felt compelled to act. Doyne used her savings to pay for Hima's schooling. The child was the first of hundreds of Nepali youngsters she and her team have since helped raise and teach.Kopila Valley Children's Home in...
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