KATHMANDU:- The route to climb Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) has now opened for this year’s spring mountaineering season.
The route is open after the rope-fixing mission from Sagarmatha base camp to the summit was completed on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, on December 17, 2025, had given responsibility to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee and the Expedition Operators Association Nepal to fix climbing ropes for managing the route for the expedition to Sagarmatha, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks.
According to the Department of Tourism, the rope fixing task from Sagarmatha base camp to the summit was concluded at 10:25 am on Wednesday. It extended gratitude towards the tourist guide and ‘icefall doctors’ involved in the rope-fixing mission.
Eight icefall doctors from Sagarmatha base camp to Camp-2 and 11 tourist guides from Camp-2 to the summit were involved in a rope-fixing mission, reads a press release issued by the Department on Wednesday.