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Nepal Villages Cut Off by Earthquake

Wait for Aid as Death Toll Passes

4,000 APRIL 27, 2015

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Earthquake Survivors and Contacts

Connect APRIL 27, 2015

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KATMANDU, Nepal Even for Lakpa Rita, a

revered Nepalese mountaineerwho has reached

the summit of Mount Everest 17 times, the

roaring wall of boulders, rocks, ice and debris

that pulverized much of the mountains base

camp over the weekend signified a malign newtwist in the peaks destructive powers.

Nothing like this has happened before at

Everest base camp, Mr. Rita said by telephone

Monday from the camp in eastern Nepal, in the

aftermath of the earthquake that set off the

avalanche and geological convulsionsthere. At

least 18 people died in the area of the camp,

which is 18,000 feet above sea level. This is a

huge, huge avalanche, he said.

The search for victims bodies around the camp,

where mountaineers gather before trying to

reach Everests summit, is likely to be long and difficult.

Rescue efforts stalled on Monday because of bad weather, after 20

stranded climbers had been evacuated and 11 bodies had been retrieved,

Jhankanath Dhakal, the chief district officer of Solukhumbu District,

which includes Nepals part of Everest, said in a telephone interview. That

was after 60 people were evacuated from Everest on Sunday, he said.

y CHRIS BUCKLEYand NIDA NAJAR APRIL 27, 2015

SIA PACIFIC

A Scen e o f D est r u ct i o n A f t er I ce Thu n der s I n t o Ev er est

Ba se Cam p

Rescue crews airlifted survivors from the Mount Everest base camp on Sunday after Nepals

worst earthquake in 81 years triggered a series of avalanches.By Carsten Lillelund Pedersen on

April 26, 2015. Photo by Azim Afif/European Pressphoto Agency.

The earthquake in Nepal unleashed a wall of snow and debris that flew toward Everest base

camp Saturday. Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse Getty Images

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Nepal APRIL 25, 2015

For many tourists and adventurers, visiting Everest even at the

relatively low base camp fulfills an intensely personal, and expensive,

quest to test extremes. But for many ethnic Sherpas employed as local

guides, who often take immense pride in their skills, the most urgent

motivation is a good income.

Last year, an avalanche killed at least 13 Sherpa guides on Mount Everest,

and left three others missing, probably dead. The number of Sherpas

among the fatalities at base camp this time was unclear, but Mr. Dhakal,the district official, said the 11 bodies retrieved on Monday included seven

Nepalis. Yet even the two successive seasons of tragedy appeared unlikely

to deter Sherpa men from taking jobs as paid guides and load-bearers on

mountain expeditions.

In Nepal, where the average income is about $700 a year, Sherpas can

make $3,000 to $5,000 in a season on Mount Everest, plus bonuses if

they reach the summit.

They still do it, especially for the money, said Jangba Shankar, an

employee of a Himalayan mountain guide company who was at the

Katmandu Medical College hospital, helping to care for a guide who had

been flown down from the base camp with head and neck injuries.

Some people are not happy because they lost their jobs because of the

avalanche, said Mr. Shankar, referring to the disaster last year. Some

people worry the earthquake will scare away people.

Even hardened climbers acknowledged being terrified by the wave of

destruction.

I heard a really big thump and then I knew, O.K., the avalanche is

coming, Mariusz Malkowski, a 42-year-old Polish-American engineer and

an experienced climber, said on Monday after finding his way out of base

camp and to New Delhi. But he said he was not prepared for what he saw:

a wave of snow and ice, accompanied by a tremendous gust of air.

Imagine a tsunami, he said.

Mountains and glaciers shook all around us, Sean Wisedale, a South

African climber and expedition leader, recounted on his blog. A massive

ice slab sheared and thundered into base camp. It lifted rocks and

boulders ahead of it, slamming into hundreds of tents in the center of the

camp and spilling over onto the Khumbu glacier on the other side.

A rescue helicopter ferried injured people from the camp a day later.

Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
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Members of his team dived into their tents, and then emerged to a

different world. Base camp was the site of post Armageddon, he wrote.

There seems little chance, however, that successive disasters will seriously

dull the luster of Mount Everest among visitors. Some foreign trekkers

who had left Everest after the earthquake, or had their plans to visit

stymied by the disaster, said in interviews in Katmandu that they hoped to

return to the mountain. Others said they had seen enough.

Emotionally, I felt like this trip was so much bigger than the actual

physical journey, Rob Besecker, who lives in Chicago, said in an

interview. He has muscular dystrophy and heart problems, and said he

had trekked to the Everest base camp, and other famous or forbiddingparts of the world, to show people that illness should not govern their

lives. He had already left the base camp when the earthquake struck.

I felt there were so many eyes on me that you just got to do it, Mr.

Besecker said. So there was a physical battle, and an emotional battle.

When memories of this years trauma subside, mountain enthusiasts will

return to Everest with the same zeal as before, according to Jiban

Ghimire, the managing director of Shangri-La Nepal Trek,a company in

Katmandu that provides support to mountaineering teams.

My experience is that every year something goes wrong, he said. But

when you cross three months, six months, eight months, people start

asking me, Hey Jiban, I want to go back.

Chris Buckley reported from Katmandu, and Nida Najar from New Delhi. Hari Kumar

contributed reporting from New Delhi.

A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2015, on page A12 of the New York edition with the

headline: A Scene of Destruction After Ice Thunders Into Everest Base Camp.

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Critically injured people being evacuated from Everest Base Camp in Nepal on Sunday.

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