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Sherpas Summit Everest. Now Come the Crowds

Edit National Geographic News 11 May 2016
The summit log was nearly nil for the spring of 2014, too, after an avalanche wiped out a team of 16 Nepali mountain workers who were fixing ropes in the notorious Khumbu Icefall ... Others were too afraid to go back into the Khumbu Icefall, Others used the incident as an opportunity to air their dissatisfaction with their inadequate pay and life-insurance protection for their families should they die on the job....

Nine Sherpas First to Climb Everest After Nepal Disasters

Edit Voa News 11 May 2016
A Nepali sherpa led a nine-man team to the top of Mount Everest on Wednesday, becoming the first to scale the world's tallest peak from the Nepali side since a deadly earthquake in 2015 and a fatal avalanche the year before forced climbers to retreat ... An avalanche in the treacherous Khumbu Icefall killed 16 mountain guides in 2014, and 18 people died a year ago when an earthquake sent a massive snowslide careening into Base Camp....

Everest: Sherpas scale Nepal side after two-year gap

Edit BBC News 11 May 2016
Nine Sherpa guides have taken advantage of good weather to scale Mount Everest for the first time in two years from the Nepali side, officials say ... The authorities this year have for the first time allowed helicopters to transport ropes and other climbing gear up part of the mountain so that Sherpas can avoid carrying equipment through the dangerous Khumbu Icefall, which has become much more dangerous after last year's earthquake ... ....

Peaking at Mount Everest

Edit The Atlantic 10 May 2016
Ang Kami Sherpa, a guide, stands in front of the Khumbu Icefall, the site of 2014's deadly avalanche. Tashi Sherpa / AP ... The South Col, the final camp before the top of the 29,000-foot mountain, is just 3,000 feet below ... Climbers have not successfully completed the ascent since 2014, when an avalanche near the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 sherpa guides ... There are currently 289 climbers and guides at various camps along routes to the summit ... ....

Climbers Near Everest Summit for First Time in 3 Years

Edit Voa News 10 May 2016
The southern route, on the Nepali side of the mountain, has suffered tragedy over the past two years, with 16 sherpa guides killed by an avalanche in the treacherous Khumbu Icefall in 2014 ... Wang Jing, a 40-year-old Chinese woman, was the only person to climb Everest in 2014 but her ascent sparked controversy amid reports she took a helicopter over the Khumbu Icefall, in what many Everest climbers saw as a violation of their code. ....

Climbers near Everest summit for first time in three years

Edit The Times of India 10 May 2016
The southern route, on the Nepali side of the mountain, has suffered tragedy over the past two years, with 16 sherpa guides killed by an avalanche in the treacherous Khumbu Icefall in 2014 ... Wang Jing, a 40-year-old Chinese woman, was the only person to climb Everest in 2014 but her ascent sparked controversy amid reports she took a helicopter over the Khumbu Icefall, in what many Everest climbers saw as a violation of their code. ....

Climbers hope to reach Everest summit for first time in over two years

Edit The Guardian 10 May 2016
There have been successive tragedies on Everest’s Nepalese approach, first in 2014 when 16 Sherpa climbing guides were killed by an avalanche in the dangerous Khumbu Icefall ... Related ... Wang Jing, a 40-year-old Chinese woman, was the only person to climb Everest in 2014 but her ascent sparked controversy amid reports she took a helicopter over the Khumbu Icefall invalidating the ascent in the view of many climbers. ....

Climbers on Mount Everest nearing summit after 2 years of tragedy

Edit New York Daily News 10 May 2016
The southern route has suffered tragedy over the past 2 years, with 16 sherpa guides killed by an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall in 2014 ... ....

After tragedies, Nepal hopes for uneventful year on Everest

Edit The Miami Herald 07 May 2016
In April 2014, an avalanche on the south side of the mountain killed 16 Nepalese passing through the Khumbu Icefall, a stretch of ice towers strung with ropes and ladders ... As the unofficial capital of Nepal’s Khumbu region, which has three of the world’s 10 tallest mountains, Namche Bazaar offers a range of travel experiences ... the Khumbu Icefall....

Want to trek to Everest Base Camp? Here are the basics.

Edit Denver Post 05 May 2016
What to know before you go on an eight-day hike into the heart of Nepal's Everest region. A memorial stupa honors U.S. mountain climber Scott Fischer on the outskirts of Dughla, on the path to Everest Base Camp ... We stay for only about an hour on a hill overlooking the camp, pitched near Everest's Khumbu icefall ... We're proud ... ....

InterWest Dispatch #2 – Everest 2016 (InterWest Insurance Services LLC)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
(Source. InterWest Insurance Services LLC) Posted on. May 5, 2016. For this dispatch I am going to jump back to last season ... By the time we started our first rotation, I felt that the team would move well through the Khumbu icefall as well as higher up on the mountain ... Mt ... I didn't mind ... From there we gather up what little remains of our personal belongings and begin to work our way down the lower Khumbu Valley to the airstrip at Lukla....

Will China’s New Road Clear a Path for More Everest Climbers?

Edit National Geographic News 04 May 2016
This is a stark contrast to the South Side Base Camp in Nepal, which demands a ten-day trek up the Khumbu Valley ... One major obstacle to climbing Everest from the South Side is the notorious Khumbu Ice Fall, where most deaths on Everest have occurred over the past 15 years, with a majority of those deaths being Sherpas ... Compared to trekking through the Khumbu, it’s so much faster to come here....

Anzac Day altitude on Everest (Royal Australian Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016
(Source. Royal Australian Navy). Anzac Day was a momentous occasion for Chief Petty Officer Aviation Technician Aircraft Scott Elleman who met a personal challenge of climbing to Everest Camp 2 ... Getting to the camp involved crossing the notorious Khumbu ice-fall, a treacherous section of the glacier which has claimed the life of many mountaineers ... 'You have to be mentally and physically prepared to cross the Khumbu ... (noodl. 33383002) ....
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