Mount Everest’s climbing season looks to have been saved.<br /><br />It follows reports of successful talks between government officials in Nepal and sherpas, still reeling after 16 colleagues died in an avalanche.<br /><br />Demanding compensation for victims’ families and better conditions, many halted work to mourn their lost comrades and threatened to stop guiding visitors this season on the world’s highest peak.<br /><br />Feelings are running high after the events of last Friday – the deadliest accident in a single day in Everest’s history. <br /><br />Three of the 16 Sherpas are still missing after the avalanche struck as they were fixing ropes and carving out a route for foreign climbers.<br /><br />Amid safety concerns and faced with a potential boycott by sherpas, several overseas climbing expeditions called off their attempts to scale Everest in the wake of the disaster.<br /><br />Nepal’s government, accused of taking hefty fees for climbing permits but doing little for the guides themselves, agreed to some of the sherpas’ demands earlier this week.
