article_snippet.sent: In order to reduce risks, the route through Khumbu Icefall, the notoriously treacherous path where the 16 were killed, has been changed to one that takes longer but is expected to be safer.
article_snippet.sent: The local Nepalese committee that determines the path up Everest announced in February that a different route had been selected.
article_snippet.sent: The climbers will now take a central route through the Khumbu Icefall, avoiding the area where the deaths occurred.
article_snippet.sent: The local Nepalese committee that determines the path up Everest voted to return to the central route for safety reasons.
article_snippet.sent: a central route had been used in the 1990s, but was abandoned in favor of a quicker route, Yangji Doma Sherpa, the spokeswoman for the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee said.
article_snippet.sent: The new path means climbers will have to cross more crevasses, and use more vertical and horizontal ladders.
article_snippet.sent: But one company, Alpenglow Expeditions, said it would stop climbing from the Nepal side, where The climbers have to go through the Khumbu Icefall, in favor of the northern route from China.
article_snippet.sent: The Chinese side of Everest has typically been less popular than The Chinese side of Everest Nepal counterpart, because of concerns of government closures.
article_snippet.sent: Some Everest observers say the northern route has harsher weather and more rocky terrain, but the northern route also doesn't have an icefall.
article_snippet.sent: The increasing popularity of the northern route has caused concern amongst Nepali companies that climbers will divert to The Chinese side of Everest.