{"id":31313,"date":"2021-04-23T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/everest-covid-cases-shine-harsh-light-on-nepalese-decision-to-open-mountain"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:04:27","slug":"everest-covid-cases-shine-harsh-light-on-nepalese-decision-to-open-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31313","title":{"rendered":"Everest Covid cases shine harsh light on Nepalese decision to open mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian climber airlifted from mountain while Sherpa reported to have also tested positive<\/p>\n<p>The first cases of Covid-19 have been identified at Everest base camp, renewing the controversy over the decision by Nepal to open the world\u2019s highest mountain to climbers.<\/p>\n<p>With access from the Chinese side of Everest closed to outside climbers, and some expedition operators on the Nepalese side increasing prices, the Nepalese decision in the midst of a global pandemic has come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/everest-covid-cases-shine-harsh-light-on-nepalese-decision-to-open-mountain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian climber airlifted from mountain while Sherpa reported to have also tested positiveThe first cases of Covid-19 have been identified at Everest base camp, renewing the controversy over the decision by Nepal to open the world\u2019s highest mountain &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions\/31314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}