Serac Blockade Halts Everest Climbers

0:00It's April 24th. I'm Corey with The Story. This is Canada News Today, driven by AI. A huge Sarahq, that's a massive chunk of ice, is blocking the route just above Mount Everest Base Camp, halting hundreds of climbers in their Sherpa. Guides from pushing toward the summit. Officials from the Paul's Mount Nearing Department say it's too unstable to cross right now, so everyone's stuck waiting while they team up with. Expedition leaders to figure out the next move. This spring season has 410 foreign climbers with permits, but it all wraps up by the end of May. The ice fall doctors, those expert route fixes whose string ropes and ladders across crevasses, usually wrapped by mid-April, but this nag has them on. Hold too. Climbers are hunkered down at Base Camp, feeling the pressure as weather windows shrink. That's the rack sits in the Kumbu ice fall, the gnarliest stretch, with shifting glaciers and house-size ice towers, and back in 2014, a similar. Most triggered an avalanche that killed 16 Sherpas, one of Everest's worst days.

1:03They're eyeing an aerial check and banking on natural melt to clear it safely, keeping the dream alive for those chasing the roof of the world.