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Bahraini team including a royal member returns to Nepal to scale Mount Everest

Royal expedition also plans to distribute 2,000 doses of Covid vaccines to locals of Gorkha district

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Bahraini team including a royal member returns to Nepal to scale Mount Everest
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Tamish Giri

March 16:
Shaikh Mohamed Hamad Mohamed Al Khalifa, a member of royal family of Bahrain has arrived Nepal with a mountaineering expedition team from Bahrain to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.

The Bahraini team returned to scale Mount Everest in the spring season this year. Earlier in October 2020, the Bahraini royal team had come to Nepal and scaled Mt. Manaslu of 8,163 meters.
The 16-member expedition team from Bahrain, including a royal family member, landed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at around 6:30 on Monday. Among them, 13 members are from Royal Guard, a unit of the Defense Force of Bahrain, and three British nationals, according to a statement issued by Nepal’s Embassy in Bahrain. The expedition team is staying in Nepal for 80 days.  

The team members are staying at Hotel Marriott and quarantining themselves as required by the health and safety protocols introduced by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to combat the spread of coronavirus. The MoHP has mandated seven-day hotel quarantine for international visitors.  

Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd, said that the team is in Nepal to scale Mount Everest. "The team is currently in hotel quarantine at Hotel Marriott in Naxal to meet the quarantine requirements," he informed. Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd is managing the expedition for the Bahraini team that includes a member of the royal family.

He also informed that the team plans to go for a trekking to Gorkha to distribute the Covid vaccines that it has brought from Bahrain and return to the capital on March 27. According to Nepal’s Embassy in Bahrain, the royal expedition team plans to distribute 2,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccines to locals of Samagaun in Gorkha district. "After that, we will finalize the date and plan for the expedition," he said.

The team will soon receive the permit for the expedition, said Sherpa, adding that his expedition agency has already begun the process of obtaining a mountaineering permit from the Department of Tourism, the government authority responsible for issuing mountaineering permits.

So far, the Department of Tourism has issued permits to two expedition groups to ascend Nuptse (7,864m) and Manaslu (8,163m).

 

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