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going right to the top of the mountain. So imagine that temperature. This place that I'm talking about, 8000 plus, it's also known as the death zone. And already you move very slowly on that height, on that altitude. But because of this queue, they're barely moving, barely. And at times you have to really, really just stand. That is what is causing the concern, because in the past, similar traffic jams have led to deaths and injuries. So how did it end up

Mikäli tämä tapahtuu, niin paljon ihmisiä on yhdessä maan krestissä. Tämän ajan hallitus on annettu noin 500 asennetta. Tämä on asennetta yhdessä, eli 500 ihmistä. Nämä 500 asennetta saattavat olla tuottajia.

That's why they say multiply that number by two or three. That means either, you know, between 1,000 to 1,500 people will have to be on the summit. At least they will try to go there. And if you remember in the past, the climbing, the summiting would have been evenly distributed.

You have very limited days, but you would know it beforehand. So maybe, you know, by mid-May, this many people, this many groups, and then towards last of May, this many groups, yeah? But this time what happened was, there's this massive ice block called Serac, hanging right, you know, above on the Kumbo Ice Falls, just above the base camp. And that delayed everything. Rope fixing, ladder fixing, you know, everything was delayed. And as a result, all these mountaineers could not acclimatize and also could not distribute that, you know, who would go first and who would go later.

As a result all of them now assembled there on the higher camps. That is why that concern that what would happen again. It's also about logistics. Who has enough oxygen bottles and who has not. It sounds like there may have been some kind of mistake in giving so many passes for people to climb Everest. What is the Nepalese government saying about this?

The logic has always been that Nepal needs money. It's a relatively poor country. This is one of those very limited source of income. Of course, it also caters to the tourism industry. But then what they have been telling me is they didn't know that there would be this bottleneck because of that CERAC and so on and so forth. And also they say that they have deployed liaison officers to take care of it.

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Taiwan Travelogue is a story set in 1938, a forbidden love between two women, a Japanese novelist and her Taiwanese interpreter. It's also an exploration of colonialism and a love letter to Taiwan's cuisine. My colleague James Menendez discussed the book with the prize winners Yang Shuangzi and Lin Qing with the help of interpreter Jean Lin.

Main point is to have a conversation with Taiwanese people and let them know what happened on our land. When you talk about a conversation to the Taiwanese people about what Japanese colonialism did to the island, is that the theme at the heart of the book?

So this is when the Chinese nationalists came over from mainland China to Taiwan. Let me bring in Lin at this point. Lin, it's also fittingly a book about translation, isn't it? Yeah, indeed. And Shanzi herself is not, she only writes in Mandarin Chinese and doesn't translate professionally, but the framework of

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I'm Celia Hatton, and at 1500 GMT on Wednesday, May the 13th, these are our main stories. President Trump has arrived in Beijing for a meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping. There were warm words ahead of the visit, but the two men will have to navigate many areas of disagreement. And in Beijing, the king has formally opened a new session of parliament, laying out the government's agenda for the next year, all as the prime minister, Keir Starmer, faces increasing pressure to step down.

Also in this podcast... Plans for a Trump megatower are cancelled in Australia.

We start with the superpower summit in China. The US president Donald Trump has landed in Beijing, where he'll meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for intensive talks. My colleague in Beijing, Steve Lai, described the moments immediately after Mr. Trump's plane touched down.

China said Mr. Trump's visit could be the start of a new chapter in relations between the superpowers in a turbulent world. Mr. Trump is being treated to a state visit, but significant tensions remain between the two countries. And there are a number of complex issues the U.S. and Chinese delegations will need to navigate. Battles over trade and the fight to dominate strategically important technologies like AI mean the two sides will have some very difficult conversations ahead of them.