A team of 21 sherpas finished equipping, this morning, a route through the Icefall to Everest Camp 1 which, according to news from Nepal, avoids exposing expedition members to the serac. In this way, more than 400 people from all over the world, and a similar number of sherpas, could begin acclimatization rounds in the coming days, ascending to the high camps as they are set up. The news has been received as a balm by companies and their clients, after days of tension and nervousness due to the threat of the unstable ice mass, in the middle of high season.
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But “the serac is still there, so the risk persists… We hope it melts soon,” Lakpa Sherpa of 8K Expeditions, the agency that coordinated the operation, told AFP.
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Jordi J. Fugardo, from Lloret de Mar, is precisely one of the members of the 8K expedition, which aims to summit Everest as part of his Seven Summits project. “They say the risk remains, that clients will not go up until it looks safer, that first the sherpas will set up all the logistics in camps 1 and 2,” Fugardo explains by phone from base camp, at 5,350 meters. In his case, after ascending Mera Peak (6,476 meters), he will continue his acclimatization on another peak in the area, Lobuche East (6,119 meters). He estimates that in about seven to ten days he will face the Icefall to reach Everest Camp 1, at just over 6,000 meters.
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