A team of rope-fixing climbers successfully scaled Mt Everest from the Nepal side this morning after opening a climbing route to the summit of the world's highest peak.
Rope-fixing teams on Mount Everest have crossed the Balcony at 8,400 metres and are working through the night toward the summit, with the Expedition Operators' Association Nepal (EOAN) targeting a completed route by the morning of May 13.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) on Tuesday paid tribute to Bijay Ghimire Biswakarma, the first person from Nepal's Dalit community to summit Mt. Everest, whose mortal remains were kept at the NMA premises from 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm to allow the public to pay their final respects to the pioneering climber.
Polish alpinist Bartosz Kacper Ziemski successfully made a ski descent from Mt. Lhotse after becoming the first person this season to summit the world’s fourth-highest mountain this afternoon.