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It takes 7 hours to walk from the height of 5200 meters to 6000 meters where the Everest base camp is located. This route, which is very difficult for the climbers and their helpers to walk with heavy loads, has now been covered by the latest delivery drones at an aerial distance of 5 to 6 minutes.
Drones have proved to be useful in transporting climbers' belongings to the first camp. Last year, Kathmandu's Airlift Technology flew DJI's Flycart-30 drone in the Everest region.
"During last year's spring Everest climbing season, we managed to fly drones up to 6,000 meters high", Rajvikram Maharjan, the director of Airlift, who is also the president of Nepal Drone Association, told Kantipur, "We were able to transport goods from the 5200 meters high Everest base camp to the first camp of the climbers."
Maharjan, who is also an aeronautical engineer, in collaboration with the Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality and the Everest Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) used drones to transport goods in the Everest region for the first time.
'Last year, we dumped 250 kg of waste at the base camp. The drone carried the goods in 6 minutes on the way to the Khumbu Icefall area, where porters had to walk for 6-7 hours. Similarly, from the base camp, about 50 kg bottles of oxygen, ropes and ladders were carried by drones to the first camp. President of Nepal Drone Association Maharjan is going to the Everest region on Thursday for this year's climbing season. DJI's Flycart-30 drone will transport goods there. According to him, the price of this drone in Nepal is around 10 million. It takes three hours to charge. Airlift Technology charges the battery used in the drone from a generator operated by fuel.
The government of Nepal has classified drones into four types. It is the largest in the middle. This drone does not fly above 6,000 meters in the Everest region. Maharjan spoke in detail about the use of drones on Mount Everest in a video conversation with Kantipur.
