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A team of eight icefall doctors has reached the Everest Base Camp to pave the route for mountaineers.

A team led by Angsarki Sherpa, an icefall doctor who has been active in route construction for a long time, has reached the base camp.

The team left Namche for the base camp on March 12 and will start the work after paying homage at the Pangboche monastery and determining the auspicious hour with the guidance of a lama, said Vice-Chairman of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) Lama Kaji Sherpa.

Icefall doctors carve out the route from the base camp to camp II of Mount Everest using stairs and ropes.

Meanwhile, with the onset of the tourist season, foreign tourists have started coming to Khumbu in the Everest region. The number of foreign tourists entering the Khumbu region has been increasing following the onset of spring. According to the Khumbu Pasanglamu Rural Municipality, more than 100 domestic and foreign tourists visit the Khumbu area daily.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, tourist arrivals in the Khumbu area had been affected for a long time. Tenzing Jangbu Sherpa, a tourism entrepreneur from Khumbu Pasanglamu Rural Municipality-4, Chukum, said that tourists have started coming in large numbers now.

The bustle of tourist arrival has increased at the Tenzing Hillary Airport in Lukla with up to 20 helicopters and 35 air flights made to Lukla daily, said Dwarika Achhami, the head of the Civil Aviation Authority, Lukla.

Tourist arrivals in the Khumbu area increase from September to November and from February to May. RSS

Police have arrested two persons in possession of undeclared foreign currency notes from the Tribhuvan International Airport on Friday.

The arrestees have been identified as Sahansil Bajracharya Shakya (56) of Kathmandu and Ranjita Shrestha (23) of Borlang-8, Gorkha and currently residing in Kathmandu.

According to SP Himalaya Kumar Shrestha, Shakya was about to board a flight to Dubai and Shrestha was preparing to board a flight to Australia when police apprehended them during the security check.

Shakya was nabbed with Euro 7, 100, Canadian Dollar 1, 900, Omani Riyal 33, Saudi Riyal 13 while Shrestha was arrested with Australian Dollar 19, 600, USD 46.

Both of them have been sent to the Revenue Investigation Department in Lalitpur for investigation.

Nepal recorded 37 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 798 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 28 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 263 people underwent antigen tests, of which 9 tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 382 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 3, 241 active cases in the country.

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said that there is a possibility of a light rain coupled with thunderstorm and lightning in some of the hilly areas in the country on Sunday with the impact of the Westerly low pressure system.

There will also be partially to generally cloudy in hilly areas of provinces including Sudurpaschim, Karnali, Gandaki and Province 1 tonight, while a few mountainous areas are likely to witness a light snowfall, the Department said.  Similarly, the sky will be clear in the rest of the areas.

The Kathmandu Valley today recorded a minimum 14.4 degree Celsius and maximum 31.5 degree temperature, according to the Meteorological Forecasting Division.

Likewise, Jumla recorded the lowest 4.0 degree Celsius today followed by the highest 36.6 degree in Biratnagar across the country. RSS