Playlist; Download. Twelve sherpas died in a recent avalanche on Mount Everest. Climber Conrad Anker explains that the guides were helping prepare a route for hundreds of climbers expected for the coming summer season. Copyright © 2014 NPR.
Twelve Sherpa guides were killed on Mount Everest Friday and three were seriously wounded, while four people who were on the mountain are still reportedly missing. A group of roughly 50 people were hit by a massive
KATMANDU, Nepal – Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's
KATMANDU, Nepal – Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's
At least 12 Nepalese guides were killed and four remain missing after an avalanche on Mount Everest on Friday.