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 | Comment on This Entry |

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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

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Are we including the corpses in the garbage?

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

Yup

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

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 | Reply

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

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

Son, you need to bathe your mouth out with soap.

#10 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-04-24 10:27 PM | Reply

Listen here, you pathetic cuck troll ----, you don't tell me anything, aright? Go-------- on your mom's used Kotex.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-25 09:48 PM | Reply