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On the occasion of the golden jubilee year of
the successful ascent of Mount Everest, the Himalayan
Rescue Association Nepal (HRA) will provide health
service at the Everest Base Camp (EBC) by establishing
medical camp and rescue later this year.
The 4,350 metre high medical camp at EBC will
provide health services to all the expedition
members scheduled to climb the Mt Everest on the
occasion of golden jubilee celebration of first
ever ascent recorded by Tenjing Norgay Sherpa
and Sir Edmund Hillary on May 27, 1953, said Dr.
Luan Freyer coordinator of the rescue unit. "The
medical camp will provide health services to overcome
the diarrhoea, snow blindness, frostbite, high
altitude palimony edema and high altitude cerebral
edema," she said.
The HRA will charge $ 50 per physical consultancy
from the foreign climbers to support the medical
service as high as EBC where as it will provide
free service to the Nepalese citizens. Additional
source of income from that the operation will
be supported by the donations from different sectors.
The camp will be established since 2nd April till
the end of the season.
The number of expedition team registered to climb
the Everest is 18 till now.
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The book includes information about the peak,
the precaution needed while climbing the 8,848-m
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By Hari Shrestha, Resident Representative in Kathmandu
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