Kathmandu, April 28 -- The deadlock on the hazardous route through the Khumbu Icefall, used by climbers attempting to summit the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, was cleared on Tuesday morning.

The rope-fixing work from base camp had been halted following a blockage caused by a serac. As a result, the operation to establish the summit route had been suspended.

"The Khumbu Icefall route, which had been blocked for two weeks, reopened this morning," Rishi Bhandari, general secretary of the Expedition Operators Association-Nepal, the umbrella body of Nepali mountaineering companies, told Kantipur on Tuesday morning. "By this evening, the Icefall Doctors' team of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, who are responsible for fixing...