Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa, May 14 (Reporters Wang Qinou, Zhou Shengping) Due to the severe international epidemic situation, the State Sports General Administration issued a notice on the 14th to decide to stop mountaineering activities on the northern slope of Mount Everest in the spring of 2021.

On May 9, the doctor disinfected the hands of the Tibetan Board of Directors staff who entered the base camp (photographed by mobile phone).

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Qinou

　　The notice stated that due to the severe international epidemic situation, in accordance with Article 70 of the "Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China", "In any of the following circumstances, the administrative agency shall handle the cancellation procedures of the relevant administrative license according to law: ... (5) Due to force majeure Resulting in the failure to implement administrative licensing matters; (6) Other circumstances under which administrative licensing should be cancelled as provided by laws and regulations", in order to effectively implement the instructions of "External Defense Import, Internal Defense Rebound" and ensure foolproof, it was decided to cancel the "National "Decision of the General Administration of Sports on Approving Tibet Yala Chambord Adventure Service Co., Ltd. to organize a mountaineering activity to climb Mount Everest in the spring of 2021."

The notice asks Tibet Yala Shampoo Adventure Service Co., Ltd. to stop the mountaineering activities originally applied for.

　　Mount Everest is located on the border of China and Nepal, its southern slope is in Nepal, and its northern slope is in Tibet, China.

It is understood that in the spring climbing season of 2021, Tibet Yala Shampoo Adventure Service Co., Ltd. is the only organizer to obtain a permit to organize climbing activities in the northern slope. A total of 21 Chinese climbers have obtained climbing permits.

　　After the southern slope climbing season on the Nepal side started at the end of March, foreign media reported the outbreak of new crown pneumonia in the southern slope climbing camp.

A reporter from Xinhua News Agency learned from previous interviews that the CIWEC Hospital in Kathmandu had accepted several foreign climbers who had been transported from the mountaineering camp three weeks ago, and they were later diagnosed with the new crown virus.

Pant, the head of the hospital's business development department, said that these climbers have now been discharged from the hospital.

　　Since the 7th, climbers, guides, and collaborators including Prince Mohammed Hamad Mohamed Khalifa of Bahrain have climbed Mount Everest from the Nepal side.

　　On the 12th, two foreign climbers were exhausted and died on the mountain during their descent from the summit.

Nepal's mountaineering management department told the media that the two deaths had nothing to do with the new crown pneumonia.

　　According to the new crown epidemic data released by the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal on the 11th, the number of newly confirmed and dead cases in the country broke the record that day, and the number of newly confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 8000 for 7 consecutive days.

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