KATHMANDU: Chairman of Pavilion Media (P) Ltd, Naresh Shrestha, has felicitated the Prince of Bahrain Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa for successfully ascending Nepal’s mountain peaks — Mt Manaslu and Mt Lobuche.
Shrestha appreciated the Prince and his team for successfully summiting the peaks during the felicitation program held in Kathmandu today.
He also handed over a souvenir to the Prince of Bahrain.
On the occasion, Prince Shaikh thanked Shrestha and the entire Pavilion Media team for the recognition.
A team including the Prince of Bahrain scaled the 8,163-meter-high peak Mt Manaslu at 6:10 am on October 15.
Likewise, the team climbed the 6,119-meter-high Mt Lobuche at 8:50 on October 3 in the second ascent of the season.The Prince of Bahrain along with his team members — 15 Bahrainis and three British nationals — had arrived in Kathmandu on September 16 to scale the mountains.
Nepal’s Sherpa climbers and guides including Mingma Sherpa, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa and 50 other Sherpas had assisted the team in climbing Mt. Manaslu.
The successful climb of the Mt Lobuche was the first ascent of the season.
The team had stayed in Nepal for about two months before they climbed the peaks.
The Nepal government had allowed the team to climb two mountains of Nepal – Mt Manaslu and Mt Lobuche.
On August 30, a cabinet meeting had decided to allow the Bahraini Prince to come to Nepal via a chartered flight by following all the safety standards determined by the Ministry of Health and Population.
This was the first group receiving the permission from the Nepal government to climb mountains of Nepal following the lockdown imposed on March 24.
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