Eventually, while Covid-19 and bad weather forced the team to abort the Everest plan, three of the climbers managed to scale Mt Lhotse. To ensure medical oxygen didn’t run out, Rana rationed oxygen canisters brought by the climbers. Anmish Varma, among the climbers at the base camp, says the spread of Covid left them all anxious. “I came back to the base camp and waited and then went back,” Varma says, finally planting the flag on the peak on June 1, the last day of the season. “Next time,” Dr Rana says, “hopefully there won’t be Covid cases and we will scale Mt Everest.”

Source: Indian Express July 08, 2021 22:42 UTC