The Icefall Doctors: Who Fixes Everest’s Most Dangerous Route
Before any climber sets foot on Everest each spring, a small team of Sherpas walks into the most dangerous stretch of the mountain on purpose, and before anyone else. They are the Icefall Doctors, and their job is to carve and maintain a safe route through the Khumbu Icefall, the shifting maze of ice towers and crevasses that every Everest…