Everest Glacier Collapse and Drone Emergency
Nobody was injured in either event and climbers have resumed moving up the mountain
Hundreds of climbers are currently at the Everest base camp in hopes of summiting this season. Earlier this week, a large serac collapsed on the Khumbu Icefall at Mount Everest, but luckily nobody was injured.
The event took out part of the fixed route installed by the Icefall Doctors this spring. The collapse occurred where long aluminium ladders had been installed there – see below. The Icefall Doctors were quick to fix the problem and reinstalled ladders and ropes through the crevasse field.
And in the world of Everest drones, one of the units had to make an emergency landing. The drones are being used to shuttle gear to higher locations on the mountains. “Our drone’s emergency parachute got auto-deployed at 6,000m due to a gust of high wind, so it landed near Camp 1,” engineer Raj Bikram Maharjan of Airlift Technology, the company in charge of operating the drones, said to ExplorersWeb.
“It didn’t crash, but one of the drone’s arms broke on landing… We have set the drone’s flight path away from the climbers’ route, so that if any accident happens, it will harm no one.”
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