More than 1,000 Everest ascents in a single season for the first time
Calm is returning to Mount Everest. The Icefall Doctors are bringing the aluminum ladders they used to span large crevasses along the route through the Khumbu Icefall back to the depots in the village of Gorak Shep. Staff from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee are sorting through the trash at base camp, which is to…