The team, led by Sherra Gyalgen Sherpa, was hired by expeditions to carry equipment and secure ropes on the mountain. Yellow and orange tents at Everest Base Camp are pitched on the edges of the Khumbu Icefall in Nepal. Nepal Mountaineering Association President Ang Tshering Sherpa told the BBC that the Sherpas encountered many challenges in their climb to the top. “Because of heavy snow and ice, it took more than four hours for them to cross the Hillary Step.”Sherra Gyalgen Sherpa was the first person to reach the summit. A team of nine Sherpas successfully scaled Mount Everest’s peak on Wednesday -- the first climbers to do so since a deadly earthquake in 2015 and a fatal avalanche the year before made attempts to the summit impossible.

Source: Huffington Post May 11, 2016 23:33 UTC