8/28/2023 0 Comments Far cry 4 rope climb fix![]() On the south side, the Icefall Doctors, a team of eight dedicated Sherpas install aka “fix” the route from Everest Base Camp to Camp 2 in the Western Cwm each year. The Doctors taking ladders into the Khumbu Icefall In general the route is set by dedicated teams of Sherpas on the Nepal side and Tibetans on the Tibet side. While it may seem silly that mountain climbers need a rope to mark the trial, there’s more to it than marking the path. To see how the rigging is set up, Tim Mosedale has a nice description on his site. The rope is about the thickness of your thumb and is attached to the climber’s harness using a carabiner and a jumar. Simply put, a thin nylon rope aka “fixed line” is anchored to the mountain side marking the path aka “route” climbers should take. Jumar attached to a fixed rope on Everest ![]() You read the term “fixing the route” and “fixed ropes” all the time so let’s take a moment while we wait for the climbers to return to base camp over the weekend to explore what these terms mean. ![]() For most teams they will do at least one more of these rotations but to the next highest camp before they are ready for the summit pushes in mid May.īut the key to it all is getting the route set. They are doing their first acclimatization rotation primarily to the lowest of the camps above base camp. As we end the third week of April, teams are all over both sides of the mountain. ![]()
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