Bahrain’s climbers lend helping hand

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Bahrain’s Everest expedition team has announced donating their surplus food supplies to those in need in Nepal as part of their humanitarian efforts. The team said the supplies are going to a local children’s home in Kathmandu.

The team is extending their helping hand along with Aloft Hotel in Thamel and Seven Summits trek. Social media users received the announcement on the team’s Instagram account with a generous round of applause, with many of them coming out to express their support.

“Thank u Bahrain’s Everest team, that means a lot to Nepalese at this time of Pandemic,” wrote kham_mag on an Instagram post welcoming the decision. “Bahrain Everest 8848.86 and Seven Summit Treks, you are together a super-strong unbeatable team.

I followed your successful expedition together with great enthusiasm. You are just great, and Your donation for the children’s home is again an excellent idea.

These peaceful and cheerful people of Nepal really deserve it. Please keep it up,” wrote martinbriselat. Nepal and China in December last year jointly announced that the revised height of the world’s highest peak was 8,848.86 metres, about 86 centimetres more than the previous measurement by India in 1954.

The team earlier successfully climbed Lobuche peak (6,119 metres) and Mt Manaslu (8,156 metres) -- both in Nepal -- in October 2020. The Bahrain team arrived in Kathmandu on March 15 to begin its Everest expedition.