Ukraine’s Antonina Samoilova unfurled her country’s flag on Mount Everest earlier this month as Nepal opened its mountains to foreign climbers and set up a new airport to boost its lifeline tourism business which went into deep freeze during the pandemic.
“Stand with Ukraine,” read the blue-and-yellow state flag which the 33-year-old unfurled at the summit of the 29,030-foot Everest, drawing the attention of international climbers on the world’s tallest peak.
