[minnesota_bound]

I saw a show on Nova or something similar this year and they showed the ladders being lashed together and placed across the wide crevasse then a man going across to secure it. They talked about who died earlier doing this. A day or so later an avalanche happened and killed many people on the mountain where these Sherpa’s had been. They escaped but others did not.

[IronJack]

That would probably be the Kumbu Icefall. It's just a big glacier, constantly moving, shifting, breaking up. Crevasses open up that can swallow a jetliner. It's one of the first steps up the South Face from Base Camp. And it's crossed dozens of times before the final assault.

No thanks.

[IronJack]

It’s “Khumbu.”