everest route change

Last April, 16 Sherpa died in a large avalanche while working on the traditional Everest climbing route. It was the single deadliest day in Everest history. That horrible event triggered a Sherpa strike that shut down the Nepali side of the mountain for the season. No expeditions summited from Nepal last year. The route that those Sherpa died on was the route that climbers have been using since the 1990s. A route that takes climbers, guides, and Sherpa into the climber’s left side of the Khumbu Icefall, where last year’s avalanche happened. […]