Team summits Everest as part of bid to remeasure peak

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A Chinese survey team today became the first and perhaps only group to climb Mount Everest this year, part of a project to remeasure the exact height of the world's tallest mountain. The ascent, reported by Chinese state media, comes after both China and Nepal canceled the spring climbing season on the mountain that straddles their border in a bid to prevent the coronavirus from spreading among expedition teams that typically live for weeks in tightly packed camps with little access to emergency medical help. That could make the Chinese survey team the only people this year to reach the peak of Everest, which has seen growing crowds of climbers and mounds of accumulated garbage in recent years as commercial operations make it easier to scale the mountain.