Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

Each spring, climbers from around the world converge at Everest’s South Base Camp in Nepal, hoping to summit the world’s tallest peak. For the Sherpas guiding them, the journey grows deadlier each year.Rising temperatures are destabilising the Khumbu Icefall, the most treacherous part of the climb. A Nepali-French team has been working on a new route that may offer a safer path up Everest, their work offering a glimpse of how mountain communitie…