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Niranjan Shrestha

Nims Purja receives a scarf as his all-Nepalese team arrives at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal in January 2021.

A family member mourns next to the bodies of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu.

A Nepalese paramedic moves an empty oxygen cylinder as a COVID-19 patient lies on a bed outside an emergency ward of a government hospital in Kathmandu. Doctors in Nepal warned of a major crisis as daily coronavirus cases hit a record and hospitals were running out of beds and oxygen.

The Himalayan nation recently recorded its highest COVID-19 daily infection and death numbers, with a higher per capita rate than neighbouring India.

Nepalese paramedics treat a COVID-19 patient outside an emergency ward of a government run hospital in Kathmandu.

Rubble surrounds one of the oldest temple complexes after the devastating 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. The disaster killed nearly 9,000 and destroyed more than 600,000 houses.

A man in Kathmandu surveyed the rubble in part of Kathmandu on Saturday. International aid officials said that the full extent of the damage and its death toll wouldn’t be known for days at least, or possibly much longer.

With hospitals overtaxed and in uncertain structural condition, injured people received treatment outside in the streets. The Red Cross said it had thousands of aid items available for deployment and more on the way from neighboring countries.

Rescue workers set up clinics in the streets to respond to victims on Saturday.

Buildings in and around Durbar Square, a site surrounded by ancient palaces that are listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites, collapsed as a result of the Kathmandu earthquake. Rescuers cleared the debris Saturday afternoon in the search for survivors.