Hundreds of climbers on icy storm Mount Everest – DW – 10/05/2025

The China Central Television (CCTV) stated that 350 hickers were saved from the situation of icy storm on behalf of Tibetan in Mount Everest on Sunday and the contact was established with more Thanegen, which remained in the camp and brings out for a small topship of Quadang in groups.

The Chinese state media outlet Jimu News had earlier reported that about 1,000 climbers were pinned at the sites just below the base camp on the northern face of Mount Everest.

Jimu said that climbers were in the camps located at an altitude of 4.900 meters (16.076 ft).

The CCTV report did not explain whether the local guide and support staff were calculated or not.

The tent has been reported to be damaged and reports of casualties have been reported, although thus no fatal has been reported so far.

Although rescue efforts are underway, they constantly disrupt bees from heavy snow and winds that have made the rescue roads irreversible.

According to local tour companies, the snowfall continued on Friday as per the suspension of ticket sales in the region in the end of Saturday.

Local people have been deployed in the camp to help in cleaning the ice blocked access.

Neighbor Nepal has been exploded with rain in the form of rain, killing dozens of people across the border with landslides and flash floods.

Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, at a distance of 8.848 meters from its extreme sea level.

The mountain is very deadly, claimed the lives of hundreds of climbers as Tenzing Norgi and Edmund Hillary first climbed their peaks in 1953.

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