It took a final 18 hours of hard work, but the Icefall Doctors have completed the difficult, winding route through Everest's ...

The Sherpa Ice Doctors who find the route through Everest's dangerous Khumbu Icefall will no longer have ... workable passage through the seracs and crevasses. The drones are being trialed this ...

Imagine looking down at your feet as you cross a crevasse on an aluminum ladder. As you turn your head left or right, you can see along the crevasse in either direction, and you can see the ...

The Khumbu Icefall, a magnificent feature located in ... dangerous sections of the Everest south-side ascent. Ice seracs, crevasses, and towering ice pinnacles that can reach heights over 200 ...

The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has announced the successful completion of route fixing through the Khumbu Icefall, marking the official opening of the 2025 Everest climbing season.

This strategy could reduce the number of trips high-altitude workers need to take through the Khumbu Icefall ... their initial ascent due to exposed crevasses and dangerous conditions.

They transport equipment through the dangerous Khumbu Icefall. Drones are supposed to ... qualified Sherpas who lay ladders and ropes across crevasses before the start of the climbing season ...

If we could speed it up we could actually see something like a river coming down from above us with the Khumbu Icefall sliding around the corner here and heading south toward the Ganges Plain in ...

It reminded me of the notorious Khumbu icefall on Everest, with interwoven chunks of ice bigger than a two-story house separated by deep, dark crevasses. The task was to navigate through this ...

They carry heavy loads of ladders, fix them over crevasses and lay rope to climb up the ice wall. Once the ladders and ropes are set along the Khumbu Icefall to Camp II, other Sherpas ferry oxygen ...