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Two mountaineers die on Everest as climbing reopens despite pandemic
Sherpa guides said a Swiss and an American have died climbing Mount Everest, becoming the first fatalities since Nepal reopened the summit of the world’s tallest mountain to foreigners last month. Nepal, whose doctors warn of COVID-19 overload in urban clinics, this season plans to issue 408 seasonal ascent permits for the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak. Last year, Nepal, a nation of 29 million, had kept the peak and its slopes closed due to the pandemic, despite potential earnings. Exhausting ascent American Puwei Liu, 55, “suddenly passed away,” at Camp 4, after suffering snow blindness and exhaustion during his ascent, said Sherpa guides of Seven Summit Treks. Swiss climber, Abdul Waraich

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