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Before any client sets foot above Base Camp, a small SPCC crew re-threads ladders and rope through the shifting Khumbu Icefall — the stretch that has…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Every climber who has ever stood on Everest's summit crossed the Khumbu Icefall to get there — and almost none of them built the path they walked on. That work belongs to a team of Sherpa climbers Nepal calls the Icefall Doctors, who spend three months each…
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Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's expedition forces one of the first routes through the Icefall on the way to Everest's first confirmed summit. The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee begins organising a dedicated Sherpa team to fix rope and ladders…
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Most Everest Base Camp trekkers never set foot in the Icefall — it belongs to climbers heading for the summits of Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse, not to the standard trekking trail that ends at Base Camp itself. But every trekker who stands at Base Camp and looks…
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