Now climb Everest will become even more difficult.
One of the most famous points along the route ascending Everest (Chomolungma) mountain climbers – almost vertical slope, called the Hillary step, collapsed, making the climb the highest mountain in the world even more dangerous.
Named in honor of the leader of the first expedition to have conquered the summit – new Zealander Edmund Hillary, a 13-metre slope was a ridge of snow and ice, which the athletes had to overcome one by one.
As noted by climbers, rock slide could cause a very destructive earthquake of April 2015 in Nepal, which killed more than 8 thousand people, the tremors also caused landslides, and avalanches.
She Chomolungma then moved to three centimeters.
“I don’t know what to do when the snow cover is not, because now there are huge stones, which would be very difficult to cope,” said the British climber Tim Mosdell on “Expedition Everest” in “Facebook”.
According to the conqueror of mountains, last year he was not able to check the condition of the steps because she was covered with a thick layer of snow, but this year he saw only rubble in its place.
And in the Hillary step queue for the ascent or descent on the plane it could mean mortal danger for detainees in case of deterioration of weather conditions.
As will now be organized in order to overcome this obstacle, travelers don’t know.
“In a perfectly clear day no matter whether you stayed for two and a half hours at the Hillary step, which is quite close to the top. However, if the weather changes, it’s a matter of life and death,” said bi-Bi-si five years ago, a veteran of mountaineering sir Chris Bonington.
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