{"id":77149,"date":"2026-04-24T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/24\/ice-block-mount-everest-base-camp-nepal"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:06:16","slug":"ice-block-stalls-hundreds-of-everest-climbers-at-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77149","title":{"rendered":"Ice block stalls hundreds of Everest climbers at base camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials assessing route after serac between base camp and camp one deemed unstable and too risky for climbers <\/p>\n<p>A large ice block on the route just above the Mount Everest base camp has forced hundreds of climbers and local guides to delay their attempt to scale the world\u2019s highest peak.<\/p>\n<p>The serac between base camp and camp one was unstable and risky for climbers, said Himal Gautam of Nepal\u2019s department of mountaineering on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/24\/ice-block-mount-everest-base-camp-nepal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials assessing route after serac between base camp and camp one deemed unstable and too risky for climbers A large ice block on the route just above the Mount Everest base camp has forced hundreds of climbers and local guides to delay their attemp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[608,239,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77150,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77149\/revisions\/77150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}