US EditionGiant Chunk of Glacier Blocks Mount Everest Route
Icefall doctors say a helicopter lift to Camp 2 may be needed as a 100-foot serac blocks rope fixing and delays Everest preparations by weeks.
- A 30m unstable serac blocking Mount Everest's route below Camp 1 has halted rope-fixing preparations, leaving icefall doctors from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee unable to find a safe bypass.
- Preparations are weeks behind schedule for the spring season, as teams usually fix routes to Camp 3 by mid-April, though Sherpas currently await melting to allow rope-fixing to Camp 2 within days.
- Nepal's Department of Tourism issued 367 climbing permits this year, mostly to Chinese nationals, while spring fees increased to $15,000 for foreigners and $1,000 for Nepalis.
- Ram Krishna Lamichhane, Department of Tourism director general, said officials are considering airlifting rope-fixing teams and logistics to Camp 2 to open the route above the serac.
- Climber Purnima Shrestha warned that a compressed climbing window could trigger 'traffic jams' this year, as favourable weather is expected only until May.
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A huge ice block hinders the preparation of the route for ascent to Mount Everest and could delay the start of the mountaineering season at the highest peak in the world. A team of particularly experienced climbers - known in Nepal as "icefall Doctors" - prepares the ascent route to the Everest summit every year with ladders and ropes. This year the work had to be interrupted due to a large chunk of glacier ice above the Khumbu icefall two weeks…
An unstable large block of ice prevents the route to the summit of Everest on the south side, in Nepal, in the middle of high season. The Icephal Doctors, or Doctors of the Cascade, the team of Nepalese climbers charged with equipping the itinerary with stairways and fixed ropes to facilitate the passage of mountaineers from all over the world, has stumbled upon a serac that prevents safely enabling the road to Camp 2. The Himalayan Times has re…
Huge ice block stops hundreds of climbers at Mount Everest base camp
A huge, unstable piece of glacier is blocking the route from Mount Everest's base camp in Nepal, just as the climbing season begins, the BBC reports. The 30-metre-high block of ice is blocking the path between base camp and camp one. In the spring season, which runs until the end of May, 410 foreign climbers have been granted permission to attempt the summit. The "icefall doctors" responsible for building the route usually finish their work by m…
Hundreds of mountaineers are trapped in the base camp of Everest, in the Himalayas, due to a rift full of ice blocks, including a huge one, which delays the opening of the route to the highest peak in the world, officials and climbers reported this Friday.The annual climbing season to the summit of 8,849 meters extends from April to May, months that offer the best weather conditions to reach the top, whipped by the wind and ice cover.
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