Nepal’s battered mountaineering tourism’s autumn hopes are fading fast amid rise in Covid-19 cases

Industry insiders say the fate of the upcoming climbing season rests on what approach the government takes to welcome tourists.

On February 20, when Pasang Tendi Sherpa landed in Nepal, he had just wrapped up a two-month-long climbing expedition on Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. The next mountain on his list was Everest.