KATHMANDU: Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal’s most experienced “ice doctors” — the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season — but even he is more nervous than usual this time round.Sherpa is among a group of ice doctors who returned
By our correspondents
September 07, 2015
KATHMANDU: Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal’s most experienced “ice doctors” — the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season — but even he is more nervous than usual this time round. Sherpa is among a group of ice doctors who returned to the 8,848-metre mountain in August — four months after a huge earthquake that triggered a deadly avalanche at its base camp.
