Around one month to prepare route to climb Everest

KATHMANDU, Apirl 03:It will take another month to prepare the route for the spring season ascent of Everest. According to the department of tourism, the work of locating the route to Mount Everest, which began in the last week of February, will be finished by Baisakh 15th (first of May). A 10-person team of experienced icefall doctors (people who build roads in snow) is now attempting to clear the way.

According to department, it will take five days to build the road to Camp-2 after two icefall doctors were injured in the avalanche that went up to Camp-1 on Wednesday.

According to Bigyan Koirala, the department's climbing branch officer, the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) is in charge of building the road up to Camp-2, and the mountaineering management association is in charge above that. "Every year, new roads must be prepared because the roads opened for climbing are bumpy and blocked by snow accumulation," he explained. It could take another month to reach the summit."

So far, 31 people from four groups have obtained climbing permits for Mount Everest's spring ascent. There are seven female permission takers.

Apart from Annapurna and Everest, Koirala said that climbing permits have been issued for 10 mountains so far, including Manaslu, Himlung Himal, Pangri Goldumba, and Baruntse and Thorong Peak. Similarly, permission has been granted to three people for Nuptse and two for Surma Sarovar.

A Nepalese group of ten has obtained one of the permits issued for climbing Mount Everest. Similarly, eight Americans, five Chinese, two Australians, and one each from Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and South Africa have requested permission to climb.

Climbers from 33 countries have been granted permission to climb all of the mountains this season. The majority of them are Nepalese (34 people). According to the department's statistics, 14 American citizens, nine from South Korea, and eight/eight from India, China, and Canada are in second place. So far, the government has received 49.5 million 5,370 rupees in royalties from mountain climbing.