Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal,<\/a> said that four doctors, rather than the previous two or three, would be stationed in the emergency room tent at base camp, at 17,380ft (5,300m). Rescue helicopters would airlift the sick or injured out from base camp within 90 minutes, Koirala added. Previously, each team had to arrange its own rescue, which would often take hours.<\/p>\nThe course of the standard route taken by most climbers of the 29,000ft (8,848m) mountain has also been changed as the previously used route was disrupted by the avalanche last year. The new route has been decided bearing in mind, the safety of the climbers and also to avoid a repeat of last year’s deathly tragedy.\u00a0Climbers if injured, would first be treated at the base camp, at 17,380ft, and then flown to a clinic at a lower altitude and, if necessary, to Nepal\u2019s capital, Kathmandu.<\/p>\n
Nepal’s popular climbing season, when hundreds of foreigners and their local guides attempt to scale Everest, runs from March 1 to May 31.<\/p>\n\n\n