The agency received $4.75 million, but city officials say more money is needed for a fleshed-out feasibility study to assess potential solutions.

Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating ... the Hillary Step, and the final slopes to the summit.

Tents are set up on the sandy gravel valley, which carves out a north-south ... These ice towers, some up to 100 feet high, are the remnants of glacial ice as it stagnates and melts and slowly ...