A ground and air search is underway on Mount Everest for three buried by snow after avalanche.
abc.net.au/news/three-sherpas-missing-on-mount-everest-after-avalanche/102216042Three Nepali Sherpas are missing on Mount Everest after an avalanche swept down and buried them in a crevasse on Wednesday, officials say.Three guides ferrying climbing gear were caught between the Base Camp and Camp IThe avalanche hit the popular south-east Ridge route to the summit of the world's tallest mountain, a Tourism Department official said.
The three guides who were ferrying climbing gear for their clients were caught at an unspecified site between the Base Camp and Camp I on its lower parts. The Everest Base Camp, which turns into a tented city during the climbing season from March to May, is located at an altitude of about 5,350 metres.
Camp I is pitched across the treacherous Khumbu Icefall, the first major physical hurdle to the peak, at an altitude of about 6,050 metres.Wednesday's disaster was the first on Mount Everest during this year's climbing season, when hundreds of foreign and Nepali climbers flock to the mountain to attempt to reach its 8,849 metres peak.
Mount Everest was first climbed by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and his climbing mate Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
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