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Icefall Doctors Make Path For Everest Climbers
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 5, 2013: climbers of sow-capped mountains including the Everest need a path. Experienced Sherpas built a path for the climbers. About 15-20 Sherpas get busy with building such path in the Khumbhu area in every mountain climbing season, according to the news posted on ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
Before going to work on building such an ice path, Sherpas used to pray Lord Buddha for saving them from any misfortunes. However, some Sherpas got killed when they came back from building a path.
Building such a path is a high-risk job. Sherpas might find the path they had built lost to the avalanche, and they even might have difficulty in finding a way back to the base camp.
For the Everest climbers, they build a path from the base camp to the camp II. Recently, such path builders had a brawl with the Everest climbers. Such brawl was not in the interest of both the climbing party and the Sherpa path builders.
Mountain climbers have named such path builders as the Icefall Doctors. Such Icefall Doctors make about Rs 200,000 about US $2,325 at the exchange rate of Rs 86 to a dollar in one climbing season of three months.
