Everest survivors airlifted out
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ALL of the climbers who had been stranded at camps high up Mount Everest by a huge earthquake and avalanches have been helicoptered to safety, mountaineers reported from base camp yesterday.
Taking advantage of Monday’s clear weather, three helicopters shuttled climbers all day from camp 1, above the impassable Khumbu icefalls, while others trekked back from camp 2 to be airlifted out.
Eighteen climbers at Everest base camp died in Saturday’s avalanche that destroyed half of the tents there, Nepal’s mountaineering association said.
Canadian Nick Cienski said many of the returning climbers’ tent camps had been wiped out by the avalanche which, surging at speeds estimated at up to 300kph, cut a swath through base camp, hurling gear, people and tents hundreds of feet.
“Many of these people have no camps, no tents, nothing left — everything is strewn all over the glacier,” he said in a video dispatch recorded on Monday and posted on Facebook.
About 350 foreign climbers, and double the number of local sherpa guides, were on the Everest when disaster struck.
Danish climber Carsten Lillelund Pedersen said his team had been trekking on Saturday down from camp 2, which is at an altitude of 6,400m, when it was caught in a whiteout and had to turn back.
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