Operators who guide clients up Mount Everest should meet minimum standards of equipment and staff, said a guide. Read more at straitstimes.com.
“Weakest clients with less experienced operators is part of the problem,” Mr Guy Cotter, 69, a noted guide from the New Zealand who has climbed Everest five times, said in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu.
Three sherpa climbers were killed when ice came crashing down on them on the lower reaches of the mountain in April and the rest of those who died succumbed to illness or exhaustion, government and hiking officials said.everyone gets a permit
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