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The avalanche is reported to have started between Pumori (Left) and Lingtren (middle peak) [2] Khumbutse to the right Mount Everest was approximately 220 kilometres (140 miles) east of the epicentre, and between 700 and 1,000 people were on or near the mountain when the earthquake struck, [3] [4] including 359 climbers at Base Camp, many of whom had returned after the aborted 2014 season. [5]
Event Location Date 1 22,000: Huascarán avalanche; triggered by the 1970 Ancash earthquake [1] Peru: 1970: 2 2,000−10,000: White Friday (1916) [2] Italy: 1916: 3 4,000: Huascarán avalanche [1] Peru: 1962: 4 310: 2015 Afghanistan avalanches: Afghanistan: 2015: 5 265: Winter of Terror; series of 649 avalanches: Austria-Switzerland-Italy: 1951 ...
List of people who died climbing Mount Everest Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster. [11] Dr. A. M. Kellas (1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition) [3] [12] Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy and U.S. Astronaut [13] Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine [14]
A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 126 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 188 people have been injured on the Chinese side of ...
North face of Mount Everest. Over 340 people have died attempting to reach—or return from—the summit of Mount Everest which, at 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), is Earth's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This makes it the mountain with the most deaths, although it does not have the highest death rate.
In yet another indicator of the power of the April 25th earthquake that devastated parts of Nepal, the Chinese geologists are reporting that the quake moved Mount Everest by 3 centimeters or about ...
Crews were searching the rubble for a second day for survivors of a deadly earthquake that struck Tibet Tuesday. At least 126 people were killed and at least 188 people were injured.