KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal‘s agitating Sherpa mountain guides on April 25 agreed to resume work on Mount Everest following negotiations with the government on their demands in the wake of the avalanche that killed 16 of their colleagues in the worst disaster on the world’s highest peak.
The mountain guides had halted work for a week to mourn the death of those who died in the avalanche on the 8,848-metre Everest on last April 18. The Sherpas had threatened to halt work indefinitely if their demands of increasing insurance facilities, providing compensation and ensuring safety were not met.