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Moreover, climbers cannot begin their ascent between 4 pm and 2 am. Regarding the entry fee, authorities will reveal the sum next month. In addition, authorities intend to install a gate at the Yoshida trail entrance, where they will collect the fees.

A volcano on a southwestern Japan island erupted early Sunday, the Meteorological Agency said, with the agency urging climbers and others to take actions to protect their lives, Report informs via The Japan Times. The eruption occurred at 12:22 a.m.

A total of 317 climbers have perished on Everest during the entire 70-year-long history of successful ascents to the world’s highest mountain. The previous deadliest climbing season, with 17 deaths, was recorded in 2014.

Rescuers are focusing on a particularly popular rocky area where many climbers are thought to have camped, but Malik said conditions were making it almost impossible to deploy search drones.

Eleven climbers were found dead in Indonesia on Monday following the eruption of the Marapi volcano in West Sumatra, a rescue official said, as a search to find 12 more missing was temporarily halted over safety concerns, Report informs via Reuters.

A local medical official at Lorestan University of Medical Sciences said 9 mountain climbers went missing, while the bodies of five of them were discovered later and one was still missing under the avalanche. Three were found injured and transferred to the hospital.

Four industrial climbers fell from a height at the construction site of one of the residential complexes in Kazakhstan’s Astana city, Report informs referring to Kazakh media. Before the arrival of the emergency medical team, one worker died on the spot, the other three were hospitalized.

Another American climber, Gina Marie Rzucidlo, and her Nepalese guide, Tenjen Sherpa, were missing, Xinhua said.

Since the helicopter couldn’t fly due to bad weather conditions, the two-member team started climbing Nanga Parbat from the base camp to join the two climbers descending from Camp 3. The four met on Wednesday and the injured climber was brought down to Camp 2 by night.

The new rules will apply to Bali’s 22 mountains, which have now been closed indefinitely for climbers. Mountains and volcanoes are popular among many visitors who flock to Bali to enjoy its beaches, jungles and rice paddy fields.