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Diaranson 28 september 2022

Hurricanes aim for 5th straight playoff trip, Famed American ski mountaineer

deeper push missing in Nepal mountain

The Carolina Hurricanes
have traded overhauls for
retooling in becoming a
perennial playoff team.
The hope is the latest
changes are enough to win
the Stanley Cup.

Headlining talents like Se-
bastian Aho, Andrei Svech-
nikov and Teuvo Teravainen
have matured from play-
off newcomers to veteran
mainstays in four straight KATHMANDU, Nepal treated in hospitals.
trips, including the past two (AP) — Nepalese rescu- One of those injured,
years as a division champion. ton followed by another sev- better. We have high expec- ers in a helicopter were Phurte Sherpa, said there
That's true, too, of coach Rod en-gamer against the New tations for the whole team. searching Tuesday for a were about 13-14 people
Brind'Amour, a first-time York Rangers that ended in a Hopefully we can reach famed U.S. ski climber a who were swept by the ava-
head coach in that 2019 run blowout home loss. them." day after she fell off near lanche.
to the Eastern Conference fi- The returnee group includes the peak of the world's
nals that followed a nine-year captain Jordan Staal and top The Hurricanes open at eighth-highest moun- "One of our friends died
playoff drought for Carolina. defensemen Jaccob Slavin, home against Columbus on tain. in the avalanche and there
Brett Pesce and Brady Skjei. Oct. 12 then head west for has been efforts to retrieve
Carolina has accomplished Frederik Andersen — one of five straight road games. Also Monday, an ava- the body but the rescue he-
Brind'Amour's goal of being last season's top netminders lanche at a lower elevation licopter has not been able
relevant again, though climb- before missing the playoffs The Hurricanes also finally on Mount Manaslu swept to do so yet," Sherpa said.
ing higher among the elite due to injury — is back along get to host their first outdoor several climbers, killing a "Others injured ones have
has been a tougher challenge. with Antti Raanta. The list game after the 2021 one was Nepali guide and injuring broken hands and feet."
of newcomers include 2017 postponed due to the CO- others.
The Hurricanes have fallen Norris Trophy winner Brent VID-19 pandemic. Carolina Sherpa and his brother were
in the second round for two Burns. will face Washington on Feb. Hilaree Nelson, 49, was flown by a rescue helicopter
straight years with home-ice 18 at Carter-Finley Stadium, skiing down from the to HAMS Hospital in Kath-
advantage. Last year's team "It's the same system, same home to the North Carolina 8,163-meter (26,775-foot) mandu on Tuesday.
had the oddity of failing to guys and same coaches," State football team and lo- summit with her partner
win a road game, first in a forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi cated next to the Hurricanes' Jim Morrison when she He said they were on their
seven -game win over Bos- said. "I think this year we'll be arena. fell off the mountain, ac- way to Camp Four to drop
cording to Jiban Ghimire oxygen cylinders when the
of the Kathmandu-based avalanche pushed them
Qatar tests out massive bus fleet ahead of Shangri-La Nepal Trek that down to Camp Three.
organized and outfitted the Nelson, from Telluride,
World Cup expedition. Colorado, and Morrison,
from Tahoe, California, are
Bad weather hampered res-
cue efforts Monday. But extreme skiers who sum-
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qa- tournament, which begins transport hubs and the eight visibility was good in im- mited Mount Lhotse, the
tar has tested out a mas- Nov. 20. That includes 3,000 stadiums where the match- proved weather conditions world's fourth-highest, in
sive fleet of buses ahead buses acquired for the World es will be held. Authorities Tuesday while a helicop- 2018.
of next month's World Cup on top of a pre-existing held tests over the weekend ter was hovering over the "I am not sure about the
Cup, when an estimated fleet of around 1,000, he said. involving some 1,800 buses mountain for signs of the whereabouts of the missing
1.2 million soccer fans will without passengers. missing climber, Ghimire climber but her husband
descend on the small Gulf Of the new buses, around said. (partner) was with us dur-
nation, an official said 700 will be electric, he told Transport will be free for ing the search (today). We
Tuesday. The Associated Press. Fans holders of the Hayya card Hundreds of climbers and made two helicopter res-
can also use Qatar's Metro issued by the government, their local guides were at- cue attempts to find her but
Thani Al Zarraa, who is over- rail system. which is required for entry tempting to reach the sum- were unable," Sherpa said.
seeing transport preparations, to stadiums. An accompany- mit during Nepal's autumn
said some 4,000 buses will be The bus fleet will shuttle ing app has a feature in which climbing season. Nepal's government has is-
used during the monthlong passengers between main fans can plan their journeys. sued permits to 504 climb-
All of the climbers caught ers to attempt to scale high
All visitors to Qatar, even in the avalanche Monday mountain peaks during the
those not planning to at- were accounted for. Some autumn season. Most of
tend the matches, will need of the injured were flown to them are on Mount Manas-
a Hayya card to enter the Kathmandu and were being lu.
country from Nov. 1 to Jan.
23. Cardholders will also be
able to enter the United Arab
Emirates and Oman.

This will be the first World
Cup hosted by an Arab or
Muslim nation. Qatar, a
small emirate in the Persian
Gulf, is among the wealthi-
est countries on earth thanks
to its massive natural gas re-
serves.