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Nepal Is Rebuilding the Exact Route Hillary Used in 1953 to Bypass Everest's Deadliest Section

Eighty percent finished and due to open by spring 2026, a permanent ladder-and-rope path across the shoulder of Nuptse revives the line Edmund…

By Laxman Rawal · Jul 22, 2026

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Every climbing season since 1953, everyone heading for the summit of Mount Everest from the Nepal side has walked into the same 700-metre stretch of moving glacier ice above Base Camp: the Khumbu Icefall. It shifts, it groans, and every spring Nepal's Icefall…

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What this means for trekkers

What this means for you Almost none of our clients ever set foot in the Khumbu Icefall. The overwhelming majority who join us on the Everest Base Camp trek stop exactly where the name says, at Base Camp, and watch the icefall from a safe distance rather than…

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