Mt Everest

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 … Read more

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the  KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and … Read more