FILE- In this Nov. 8, 2019, photo, Mingma Sherpa, owner of Seven Summit Treks speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal. "Even though coronavirus has reached the Everest base camp it has not made any huge effect like what is being believed outside of the mountain," said the biggest expedition operator on Everest. "No one has really fallen seriously sick because of COVID or died like the rumors that has been spreading." (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)