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17. That effectively means no summit season this year

Fri Mar 13, 2020, 04:56 AM

Mar 2020

There's not time -- particularly as the monsoon keeps moving earlier thanks to climate change -- to acclimatize and summit if you can't get to base camp until May 1. Maybe a small Alpine-style team could do it, but none of the guided expeditions will be able to make it in that time frame.

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That effectively means no summit season this year Recursion Mar 2020 #17

Not just Everest - all tourist visas muriel_volestrangler Mar 2020 #20