A mountaineering official on Wednesday said, “High winds have delayed dozens of climbers trying to reach the peak of Mount Everest” Gyanendra Shrestha said, “The winds have made it difficult for the climbers to make their attempts for the summit but posed no immediate danger”

Gyanendra Shrestha is an official in Nepal's Mountaineering Department who is at base camp on Everest.

The climbers have moved down to lower camps on the slopes of the world's highest mountain to wait for the conditions to improve.

Almost 88 climbers have reached the 8,850-meter summit in the past few days, marking the first successful climbs following two years of disasters that virtually emptied the mountain.

An avalanche triggered by a powerful earthquake killed 19 mountaineer and wounded 61 others at base camp last year. In 2014, 16 Sherpa guides were killed by an avalanche above the base camp.

Last year's climbing season was scrubbed, and nearly the entire mountaineer in 2014 deserted their attempts after the avalanche.

The only team who reached the summit that year from the Nepal side was a Chinese woman and her five Sherpa guides.