Sentence examples for trail through the icefall from inspiring English sources

After a while, they rejoined the main roped trail through the icefall, keeping an eye on the path behind them, ready to pull up ladders and cut fixed lines if there were Sherpas in pursuit.

Basically, we were the last people through the icefall before it happened".

Sherpas have to find and maintain a new route through the icefall every year, but have previously stuck to the original line taken by the first ascensionists.

Battelli and his two friends, Dan Fredinburg and Florian Nagel, who all worked at Google, had been the last climbers through the icefall before the avalanche struck in 2014.

Instagramming their rotations – the practice climbs up through the icefall – and hanging out with their more reserved, mostly British team-mates.

The ice that moves through the icefall in summer has more of its surface exposed to melting and is greatly reduced in volume compared with the ice moving through in winter.

For a time, there was some discussion of trying to repair the damaged route through the icefall, but it was deemed not possible, thus effectively ending climbing on the south side also for that year's spring season.

Mazur reported later that the route through the icefall had been destroyed but that his team was unharmed, although they had felt the quake on the mountain's north side.

All those attempting the classic South Col route – followed by Sir Edmund Hllary's team, who first conquered Everest in 1953 – have to pass through the icefall to reach the upper slopes of the mountain.

"At this time, the teams at base camp feel a route through the icefall will be very difficult and thus we are looking to use helicopter transport to move our and other teams from Camp I to Base Camp".

The fact that members and Western guides now suck down a lot more bottled oxygen is wonderful for them, but it means the Sherpas have to carry those additional oxygen bottles through the Icefall for the Westerners to use.