Eight-member rope fixing team of Nepali guides scale Mount Everest

As spring's climbing season kicks in, an eight-member rope fixing team of Nepali mountain guides have successfully made their way to Mount Everest, world's highest peak. The climbers successfully fixed the climbing ropes from the South Col to the summit point and scaled the 8,848-metre peak on Tuesday for the other climbers to follow, according to Ummid Bhandari, manager at Himalayan Guides Nepal, that organised the expedition.

The expedition was led by Siddhi Bahadur Tamang. The Expedition Operators Association of Nepal has assigned Himalayan Guides to fix the route above Camp II this season, while a team of icefall doctors assigned by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee opened the climbing route from the base camp to Camp II.

A total of 378 climbers belonging to 41 expedition teams have received a permit from the Department of Tourism to climb Mt. Everest this spring. Of them, 13 are Nepali nationals.