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Monday 21 September 2020
“This black mountain, in the past this was all ice but now it’s just rock.”
Too much rain, and too little rain, hampers farmers and their crops.
Cormac Fitzgerald reports from Nepal on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting Mount Everest’s guides.
The region receives over 50,000 tourists every year, including climbers and trekkers.
About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week, including two Irish men .
Robin Fisher’s death follows that of Irishman Kevin Hynes who died yesterday.
Seamus Lawless went missing on the world’s highest mountain earlier this week.
Seamus Lawless reportedly fell on the mountain at an altitude of 8,300m yesterday.
The ancient shunning practice known as “chhaupadi” was outlawed in 2005.
It is the deadliest incident to hit Nepal’s mountaineering industry since 2014.
The bodies of four South Koreans and four Nepali guides were spotted among the wreckage of their camp.
One woman survived the crash with injuries and has been airlifted to the capital.
Nobukazu Kuriki was a solo climber who’d conquered other 8,000m peaks in Nepal.
Xia Boyu had both his feet amputated after suffering frostbite during his first attempt at Everest in 1975.
Nobody was hurt in the incident but hundreds of passengers had flights cancelled.
The disaster is the worst such incident to hit Nepal for years.
She died of suspected smoke inhalation
10% of girls in Nepal are married by the age of 15 and 37% by the age of 18.
At least five people, including two children, have been killed in Mumbai since yesterday.
More than a dozen climbers have also been rescued from the mountain in the last three days.
The man’s partner had died three days before rescuers arrived, he said.
Dozens of women were forced to flee their homes during the country’s decade-long civil war.
The match between the convicted murderers was set up by the man’s mother – who’s also in prison.
It’s thought a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015 knocked an inch off the top of the world’s highest peak.
Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure. The girls are sometimes forced to remain in a hut or cowshed for days,
There were five adults and one infant on board as well as the pilot. There were no survivors.
Two children were killed when a school in the capital Kathmandu partially collapsed.
Robert Gropel and his wife Maria Strydom were climbing Mount Everest together earlier this month when she died.
The latest fatality is an Indian climber.
Children are said to be exchanging hands for as little as €6,500.
The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after taking off.
One month on, a survivor of the Nepalese earthquake talks about the conditions in the camps and the dangers faced by displaced women and girls.
It is unknown if there are any survivors.
A little girl egged at a No campaign event, the death of Derek Davis and a train crash in Philadelphia had people talking today.
The search has also been continuing for a US military helicopter that went missing while delivering aid.
Their friends really aren’t impressed.
People say it’s disrespectful to victims.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, an Oxfam aid worker on the ground described the consequences of yesterday’s earthquake.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said there were no reports or suggestions of any Irish casualties.
PUBS OUTSIDE DUBLIN that don’t serve food will be permitted to open today for the first time since March.
Strict measures will be in place: customers will not be able to sit at or order at the bar, and groups will be limited to six people from three different households, with distancing of at least one metre between each table.
If a pub can implement a distance of two metres, the 105-minute time limit for customers can be waived. All customers are to be off the premises by 11.30pm.
Amidst a rising number of cases in counties around the country, Professor Philip Nolan told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that although people outside of Dublin can go to the pub, “the question is should you, and how often”.
So, with that in mind, will you go to a ‘wet’ pub this week?
Poll Results:
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