The Week in Pictures: April 17 – April 24, 2015. Part 2/6

A family member of Aan Kaji Sherpa, one of the 16 Nepali Sherpa guides who were killed during an avalanche last year, offers prayer in memory of Aan Kaji at a monastery in Kathmandu April 18, 2015. More than 4,000 climbers have reached the summit of Everest, the world's highest peak, since it was first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in 1953. In April 2014, an avalanche killed 16 Nepali Sherpa guides who were fixing ropes and ferrying supplies for their foreign clients to climb the 8,850-metre (29,035-foot) peak. The accident – the deadliest in the history of Mount Everest – triggered a dispute between sherpa guides who wanted a climbing ban in honour of their colleagues and the Nepali government that refused to close the mountain. The sherpas staged a boycott, forcing hundreds of foreign climbers to call off their bids to climb Everest. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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