According to the BBC, Nepal is shifting the Everest base camp away from the melting Khumbu glacier.
The existing base camp position is getting destabilized by
the ice melt and is no longer safe. Climbers claim fissures form in the ground
overnight, and guides say they anticipate additional avalanches and ice falls
at the present position coming ahead. The new campsite will be roughly 200 to
400 m away lower in height — and in a position where there isn’t year-round
ice.
Climate change isn’t the only contributing element, though:
the sheer volume of people traveling through the base camp contributes to the
instability. “For illustration, we identified that individuals urinate roughly
4,000 liters at the base camp every day,” Khimlal Gautam, a member of the
organization that urged the action, told the BBC. “And the vast quantity of
fuels like kerosene and gas we consume there for preparing food and heat will
undoubtedly have repercussions on the glacier’s ice.”
Situations on Everest are progressively worsening throughout, not even at the base camp. Other glaciers are melting, shedding ice in a few years that took hundreds of years to form. It’s continuing to make the ascent exceedingly risky. The melting is also exposing the ice, dead remains of prior climbers, and mounds of trash.