Mt. Everest climbing season suspended

The busiest climbing period of Mount Everest is just days ahead from starting but it’s very probable that no one will get to the summit this year due to extremely high perils.

Several mountaineering companies located at base-camp cancelled their expeditions to the summit after the deadliest accident on Mount Everest left 13 people dead and another 3 still missing on Friday.

‘Making the decision was hard. We felt this was right for us. Not everyone is going to be happy with our decision. I'm not looking to profit from this season,’ said Gordon Janow, a founding member of Alpine Ascents.

The Nepali expedition organizers held a meeting on Sunday where they weighed the dangers of proceeding with the quests this season or suspending them.

‘We cannot force the expeditions to make any decision,’ said Madhu Sudan Burlakoti, chief of the Tourism Industry Division of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation.

Among the many obstacles the mountain puts before climbers, now, after the avalanche, the adventurers will have a new blockage on their path as the avalanche destroyed the paths from the base-camp and new ones have to be made.

219 lives have been taken by the mountain, from 1922 to 2010 and climbers have a 29.44% chance of reaching the summit.