DHAKA: Just days away from the beginning of the busiest climbing season of the year at Mount Everest, expeditions are unsure whether climbs on the world`s highest peak will go ahead or not.

They said it is sure that climbs on the world`s highest peak will not be possible for this season as the path on the glacier has been destroyed by the avalanche on Friday’s avalanche.

CNN reports on Monday that climbers may wait until a new path will have to be made.

"There is a lot of sadness at the moment and it could be up to a week before a decision is made," said Ang Tshering Sherpa of Asian Trekking, which has about two dozen foreign climbers at Everest Base Camp about making new track to the Everest.

On Friday, 13 people were killed in the single deadliest accident on Mount Everest. Three days later, three people are still missing and feared dead.

A meeting of Nepali expedition organizers Sunday decided to leave it to the discretion of the individual expeditions whether to abandon the climbs or to go ahead.

The meeting also decided not to put any "pressure" on expeditions to make a decision.

"We cannot force the expeditions to make any decision," said Madhu Sudan Burlakoti, chief of the Tourism Industry Division of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation.

The avalanche took place just above base camp in the Khumbu Ice Fall.

Climbers and guides had been setting the ropes for the route, acclimating and preparing the camps along the route when the avalanche hit.

The path on the glacier has been destroyed by the avalanche and a new path will have to be made, Sherpa said.

The operators have decided to let the so-called "icefall doctors" decide whether to carve another path on Khumbu Ice Fall -- and have promised to not penalize them if they refuse to.

BDST: 1800 HRS, APR 21, 2014