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Despite an agreement by the Nepalese government to meet the compensation demands of Mt. Everest sherpas, many skilled mountain guides are reportedly refusing to continue work for the remainder of the climbing season. Citing an American climber at base camp, Reuters says sherpas had voted to head down and were ‘packing up.’ Many of them are employed as guides, cooks, and skilled “ice doctors” who prepare the climbing route for hundreds of foreign climbers. At least 13 ice doctors were killed by a single deadly avalanche on April 18. The deaths prompted sherpas to demand for a welfare fund from the government and increased compensation.
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