News from the Everest Base Camp is always interesting and awaited eagerly by people who love adventure news. One of these highlights is that teams have made their way up to the Everest Base Camp and since the teams now have permits as well as visas they can go from Kathmandu and cross the border up to Tingri as well as some other Tibetan villages. These teams will get up to the Everest Base Camp where you have the Altitude Junkies as well as SummitClimb making their way to the Everest Base Camp in the recent past.

Now when the teams get up to the Everest Base Camp they experience what is known as a Puma or a religious ceremony. It is here that a Lama or a priest performs the ceremony where he asks the ’mountain gods’ to protect the climber and also asks the god for permission for the climbers to make their way up to the mountain peak. Forgiveness is also sought for any damage that the mountaineers may inflict on the mountain that is being climbed.  The effects of these Pumas are quite different on different climbers which mean that some people are quite indifferent about these ceremonies, whereas some others do consider these as being important.

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