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MANILA, Philippines – The magnitude 7.8 quake in Nepal Saturday, April 25, also triggered the deadliest disaster in the history of Mount Everest, when an avalanche overwhelmed the famed mountain’s base camp.
The avalanche took the lives of 18 people, while 60 others were injured. (READ: Death, panic on Everest once more, year after tragedy)
One of the mountaineers at the Everest base camp at the time of the quake, German climber Jost Kobusch, was able to film the exact moment the avalanche engulfed the area.
“The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives,” Kobusch wrote in the video description. (READ: Survivors’ tales from Everest avalanche horror)
Aftershocks triggered fresh avalanches on Sunday, Apirl 26, even as helicopters evacuated some of those worst injured the day before.
Hundreds of foreign mountaineers had gathered at the world’s highest mountain at the start of the annual climbing season, and the real scale of the disaster has been impossible to evaluate with all forms of communications cut off.
Warning: the video has some explicit language. – with Agence France-Presse / Rappler.com
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