Posted on 04/25/2015 2:48:28 AM PDT by jimbo123
Saturday’s earthquake has triggered avalanches in Mount Everest according to a Tweet posted by Alex Gavan, a mountaineer. He claims, “running for life from my tent” and further says there were “many, many” people up the mountain at the time.
Alex Gavan, who describes himself as a mountaineer, said a “huge avalanche” had hit from Pumori, a mountain lying close to Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border.
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Daniel Mazur @danielmazur · 30m 30 minutes ago
Aftershock! #Everest team is in camp 1, hanging on. #Icefall route destroyed.
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Daniel Mazur @danielmazur · 2h 2 hours ago
A Massive earthquake just hit Everest. Basecamp has been severely damaged. Our team is caught in camp 1. Please pray for everyone.
An avalanche is probably a good thing. From what I’ve read, Everest is littered with trash, feces, and even corpses.
1415hrs Nepal Time
Eric Arnold describers the earthquake scene at Everest BC in his blog post. “Lying in my tent seems like someone is shaking my tent, a joke Ritchie I think. Not much later, the shaking of the tent over in the shaking of the ground. Harder and harder. I realize earthquake !! When I opened my tent zipper I see three sides gigantic avalanches come down. Behind me from the Lingtren from the icefall and Pumori. The avalanche from the Icefall-Nuptse is gigantic. Not much later I realize that the cloud base camp is going to hit. Arnold beckons me, come to the mess tent. I run the 20 feet to the tent, mid avalanche cloud touches me. I am totally lost direction and walk against Moulay his tent. Then I storm into the tent. My ears are filled to the brim with snow. In five seconds, I look like the abominable snowman. It is now an hour after the avalanche. Details about the victims, I do not know. Our plan to walk to Pumori BC was not happy today. From which side was a huge avalanche.”
GOD has been extremely active this erf day season
Almost a Sodom and Gamorrah type reaction ... eh ?
150 dead.
It looks like the poorly built houses just pancaked.
Northmen PK @NorthmenPK · 1h 1 hour ago
Northmen PK retweeted Ferran Latorre
#Makalu base camp completely destroyed but luckily climbers are safe, as per initial reports. #Everest #NepalQuake
Yup. From what I’ve heard, if you have the endurance, Everest is almost just a walk up.
K2 is supposed to be much, much, much harder.
Hmm. If it were a gang rape, the videos would be up on youtube by now.
Wow - looks like a second tragedy on Everest. The first link is about the tragedy on Everest last year, the second link is about the sherpas. By the way, ‘facebook post’ is in the link .... these were posted on facebook, but the links go to the articles. They are very interesting reading.
Hard sell for those caught on the mountain....
And this is peak season for Everest.
Alex Staniforth @alex_staniforth · 2h 2 hours ago
Alex has just called support team. He was hit by an avalanche whilst heading up to camp 1. He is Ok, shaken and safe back at base camp.
While conquering Everest isn't what it used to be due to the commercial expedition groups, it is not exactly a summer stroll. People die every year on Everest. Man isn't designed to spend time at 29,000+ feet. K2 is definitely more challenging than Everest but most mountaineers would agree that Annapurna is the most perilous of the giant mountains due to the constant, extreme avalanche danger. If you attempt to summit Annapurna, you better make sure that your will is up-to-date.
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