Eight of the mountaineers and their support teams were performing prayers at the bottom of Everest before leaving for base camp to fix routes through a treacherous icefall for climbers, a top official said.
"Starting from 7th March, the expert team will continue opening expedition routes and fix ladders and ropes for the upcoming season," Nishan Shrestha, CEO of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, which manages the peak, told AFP.
The quake triggered the April 25 avalanche which left 18 people dead at Everest base camp.
It was the second in as many years after 16 Nepali guides lost their lives on the icefall in 2014, sparking a shutdown of the peak.
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Ice doctors, highly-skilled mountaineers, are the first men on the peak every season, using ropes and ladders to build a route across plunging crevasses and constantly shifting ice, including the dangerous Khumbu icefall.
Mountaineering is a huge revenue earner for Himalayan Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 peaks over 8,000 metres.