Safe route to Mount Everest climbing reopening soon, 80 % work completed

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A safer route to climb Mount Everest is expected to reopen by March next year, according to the Department of Tourism. About 80 per cent of the construction work on the route the same path used by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali mountaineer Tenzing Norgay Sherpa during their historic first ascent of Everest in 1953 via the Nuptse side has been completed.