Nepal’s government agreed on Tuesday to compensation demands for the sherpas who work on Everest after at least 13 died in the single deadliest avalanche on the mountain last week.<br /><br />The guides had gone on strike issuing a list of 13 demands to the government leaving hundreds of climbers stranded at Base Camp.<br /><br />Funerals for those who died in the mountain tragedy were held on Monday. <br /><br />The president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said the guides will go back to work and climbing will start again on Saturday. <br /><br />But an American climber at base camp said the sherpas had voted to leave and had headed down the mountain.<br /><br />The government has agreed to raise the minimum insurance for sherpas on Everest by 50 percent and said it would establish a relief fund for the welfare of the bereaved families. It also agreed to pay for the education of their children.<br /><br />Several expeditions have already been called off.
