The government has formed a new body by merging the Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management (NATHM) and the Nepal Mountain Academy (NMA), aiming to streamline tourism education and training.
The Department of Tourism has granted the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) special authorisation to mobilise skilled manpower from its member agencies to complete route-fixing and rope-laying work through the Khumbu Icefall
Following a delay in opening a route along the Khumbu Icefall, the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) and the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) today agreed to mobilise a joint team to the icefall section on Sunday.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has invited applications from eligible candidates for the vacant position of Director General — the authority's chief executive — through an open competitive process, a significant departure from the previous practice of direct ministerial appointment.
A joint team of senior mountain guides and Icefall doctors climbed to the dangerous section of the Khumbu Glacier and found that fixing a route in the treacherous icefall section is impossible unless the large chunk of hanging serac collapses.
Expedition Operators Association Nepal (EOAN) has said that it is closely monitoring the situation on Mt Everest and expediting its consultations with the concerned stakeholders to find amicable solutions to the existing problem, according to EOAN General Secretary Rishi Ram Bhandari.
A five-member Sherpa team from Imagine Nepal, Elite Expeditions, and Altipro, joined by Polish mountaineer Bartek Ziemski, climbed above the contested ice blockage in the Khumbu Icefall on Sunday and fixed ladders and ropes toward Camp I, in what marks the most significant progress on the stalled Everest route since the season's opening was delayed.
The Khumbu Icefall route on Mt. Everest has been opened after days of mounting tension at Base Camp, with a joint team of 13 mountain guides from the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal (EOAN) and eight icefall doctors from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) reaching Camp I on Tuesday morning.
The joint team of icefall doctors and expedition operators has completed route fixing all the way to Camp II on Mt. Everest, clearing the final obstacle in a season-opening effort that had kept hundreds of climbers waiting at Base Camp for the better part of two weeks.
More than a hundred climbers and support staff crossed the icefall route on Mt Everest this morning as they began acclimatisation rotations and ferrying loads to Camp II.