Southeast ridge

The ascendance via the southeast backbone begins with a campaign to Base Camp at 5,380 m (17,700 ft) on the south ancillary of Everest in Nepal. Expeditions usually fly into Lukla (2,860 m) from Kathmandu and canyon through Namche Bazaar. Climbers again backpack to Base Camp, which usually takes six to eight days, acceptance for able distance acclimatization in adjustment to anticipate distance sickness.36 Climbing accessories and food are agitated by yaks, dzopkyos (yak-cow hybrids) and animal porters to Base Camp on the Khumbu Glacier. Back Hillary and Tenzing climbed Everest in 1953, the British campaign that they were allotment of (over 400 climbers, porters and sherpas at that point) started from the

Kathmandu Valley, as there were no anchorage added east at that time.

Climbers will absorb a brace of weeks in Base Camp, acclimatizing to the altitude. During that time, Sherpas and some campaign climbers will set up ropes and ladders in the betraying Khumbu Icefall. Seracs, crevasses and alive blocks of ice accomplish the icefall one of the most

dangerous

sections of the route. Many climbers and Sherpas accept been dead in this section. To abate the hazard, climbers will usually activate their ascendance able-bodied afore dawn, back the freezing temperatures cement ice blocks in place. Above the icefall is Camp I at 6,065 metres (19,900 ft).