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Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, and it may change climbing forever
A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas and cutting the time it takes to get supplies up the mountain – as well as bringing trash down.
Pandey, of Airlift Technology, a local drone-mapping start-up, believes that with his technical expertise in using drones combined with the Sherpas’ decades of mountaineering knowledge, they can make it safer to be on the roof of the world. Drone use “is part of the evolution of climbing,” says Caroline Ogle of New Zealand-based Adventure Consultants, who has spent five seasons at Base Camp managing expeditions from what she refers to as “the amphitheater of Everest.” Lisa Thompson, who has climbed the seven summits — the highest peak on all seven of the traditional continents — and now trains climbers through US based Alpine Athletics, agrees with Ogle and sees drones as a “welcome and responsible evolution.”
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