By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Oct 4 : The high profile expedition team comprising prince of Bahrain successfully scaled 6,119m Mt. Lobuche on Sunday morning. This has been the first ascent of mountains during this autumn.
According to Seven Summit Treks, the entire team of Bahrain including other Sherpas successfully reached the summit of Mt. Lobuche at 8:50 am this morning.
Altogether 25 persons, including 18-member Bahraini team, reached the summit, Migma Sherpa, Chairman of the expedition company, wrote on his facebook page. Sherpa himself has also been atop Mt. Lobuche with Bahraini team.
Nasser bin Hamad al Khalifa, a member of the Royal family of Bahrain, is also in the 18-member team of climbers which includes 15 Bahraini and 3 British climbers.
The Department of Tourism (DoT) had granted permission to the expedition team on September 22.
This is the first expedition team of foreigners attempting Nepali mountains this autumn despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier, an expedition team of six Nepali climbers had taken permission to scale Mt. Barun Tse (7,129 m) during this autumn on September 4.
The government has opened up mountaineering and trekking activities by taking health safety measures. The government had suspended all mountaineering activities last spring after issuing permission to five expedition teams due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Expedition operators have said that they had been receiving enquiries from foreign climbers on different mountains of Nepal.
Chairman of Seven Summit Sherpa said that more enquiries had been obtained for Mt. Amadablam (6,812m). Amadablam is one of the major peaks of Nepal scaled during the autumn season.