KATHMANDU: Climbing activities continue to get momentum in the higher camps of the Mt Everest after icefall doctors quickly repaired the route which was hit by a small avalanche on Thursday night.

According to Gelje Sherpa, an icefall doctor assigned by the Sagarmatha Polution Control Committee in the Everest region, icefall route above the base camp was repaired in the morning.

Though the night movement on the icefall was halted by a small avalanche that took out a couple of ladders, world climbers have continued their rotations above the base camp in the day time, Sherpa told THT Online over phone from the base camp.

The acclimatising climbers also made several rounds of rotations through the Lhotse Face which was closed following the collapse of ice for a couple of hours on Thursday.

“The Adventures Global team members have reached the Camp III through the Lhotse South Face and it was very windy,” a Cape Town climber Ronnie Muhl stated. According to him, they will spend the night in the Camp II and return to the base camp on Saturday for a well-deserved rest.

Robert Key, a climber from Nebraska of the US reported that his team was all back down safely in the base camp after making a rotation in the higher camps including the Lhotse Face.

Noted climber Lakpa Rita Sherpa said that incidents like an ice collapse or small avalanches were normal on the mountains.

“The snow bridge claps at the Lhotse South Face did not affect the climbers’ acclimatisation at all and the teams are heading up to the Camp III on Friday,” he said.

Climbing is on as an ice collapse may happen every day on the mountain, Nima Namgyal Sherpa, founder t the Himalayan Medics Rescue Service commented.

“Right now, I am taking rest at the base camp as I came back after fixing the route and ropes from the Camp II to the Camp III,” a certified mountain guide Nima Gyalzen Sherpa shared.

The Department of Tourism has permitted more than 400 climbers including 289 for the Mt Everest, along with their high altitude workers, to move up to the Mt Everest base camp this spring climbing season.