Huge Chunk of Glacier Blocks Everest Route

Monday, April 27, 2026

A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season gets under way in the Himalayas.

Posted by REDIAL at 03:30 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

Ice block stalls hundreds of Everest climbers at base camp

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-- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) Apr 24, 2026 at 4:12 AM

Comments

Climbing Mt Everest has never been easy.

It has always been faced with challenges.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-24 12:45 AM

It has always been faced with challenges.

These days it's mostly overcrowding and traffic jams at the pinch points. The summit season is pretty short.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-04-24 12:56 AM

@#2 ... These days it's mostly overcrowding and traffic jams at the pinch points. ...

Not to mention the garbage that the climbers leave behind them on the trails ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-24 01:12 AM

@#3

Mount Everest's highest camp is littered with tons of garbage. Cleanup will likely take years (2024)
www.pbs.org

... The highest camp on the world's tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest's peak.

The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year's climbing season. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-24 01:15 AM

Not to mention the garbage

And the melting ice is bringing back garbage from decades ago, on top of the new stuff. Also many O2 bottles.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-04-24 01:23 AM

Are we including the corpses in the garbage?

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-04-24 08:32 AM

Yup

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-24 10:18 PM

Ya know what we need? Dog sleds to bathe South Pole. Everest is cooked.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-24 10:19 PM

Bathe? Seriously? And people are worried about AI. Computers are ------- imbeciles.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-24 10:20 PM