Nepal reopens to adventurers amid economic woes caused by pandemic

A man walks past a trekking gear store in Kathmandu, Nepal (Niranjan Shrestha/AP)

Adventurers looking to scale Nepal’s Himalayan peaks and trek its mountain trails can finally do so for the first time in seven months, as the country reopens to foreigners even as the coronavirus pandemic has left it short of hospital beds.

Foreign visitors are a major source of income for Nepal and the closure has impacted the estimated 800,000 people who work in the tourism industry.