My friend, Helen, phoned this morning from Kathmandu, capital city of Nepal...and a lot less developed than Tibet and China Unfortunately, her trip to Everest Base Camp got cancelled due to a bad snow storm and an avalanche in which 4 people died and 168 got stranded and had to be airlifted off the mountain. Rather than the climb, Helen and her friend Vanessa took a plane ride over the mountain. She is a little disappointed but says she will make it back to Everest for the trek to base camp next time she is in China which will probably be next year some time when she visits her family. She is in Kathmandu for the next 4 days before heading off to Bhutan for an 8 day trek through the Himilayas Videos and news stories of the slide. cbc.ca/news/world/4-dead-after-mount-everest-avalanche-1.2074385 video of cleanup--- globalnews.ca/video/905600/raw-video-aftermath-of-deadly-avalanche-on-mt-everest theguardian/world/2013/oct/16/everest-avalanche-australian-dies-tibet-china theadventureblog.blogspot.ca/2013/10/himalaya-fall-2013-avalanche-claims.html
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:58:00 +0000