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Hundreds of people still evacuate from Mount Everest After Freak Blizzard captured climbers at a camp in Tibet over the weekend.
Late on Sunday, about 350 hikers reached a meeting place in Tingra, Tibet and Savior, it was in contact with another 200, the CCTV State Emitter reported. One person died.
There were no current updates of the Savior Mission on Monday, Associated Press said.
Excursions, whose path blocked the strong snowfall that began on Friday, were captured at an altitude of more than 4,900 meters, according to a report of the Chinese website of digital news to Jim News.
Mount Everest is about 8,850 meters high.
The mountaineer who arrived down the mountain before the snowfall told Jim News that people still reported on the mountain that the snow was one meter deep and buried tents.
Hundreds of locals headed to the mountain on Sunday to clean the path so that captured climbers could be descended, the Jim report said.
According to AP, the footage shot by a local village showed a long lifeguard line, accompanied by horses and oxen, after a winding path carved through deep snow.
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Those who are still captured are in contact with the authorities, BBC says.
Freak Blizzard hit the Chinese holiday Golden Week, which is the beginning of the hectic tourist season on Everest, and usually characterized by the sky and comfortable temperatures at this time of year.
Dong Shuchang’s nature photographer told the BBC that one of the hundreds of tourists who visited Everest during the holidays. He said he intended to catch a mountain from Tibet, but the Snow Storm hit shortly after his journey began, he told the British socket.
“Lightning and thunderstorms (Saturday) would not have stopped. The snowfall was so heavy that I could hardly sleep,” Dong said, adding that his group climbed to an altitude of 4,600 meters before she turned.
“Our winds and raincoats did not match the snow. We were all soaked,” Dong said, adding that the signs of hypothermia showed in several members of the group he was with.
Light yellow tents seen at the South Base camp on Mount Everest in Nepal.
Elena Slepitskaya/Getty Images
Dong said he was in Himalayas in more than a dozen occasions, but that he never faced such extreme conditions as those who were on the weekend.
“Everyone was moving slowly. The route was very slippery. I continued to fall for ice,” he told the BBC.
Another woman said that her husband, an experienced mountaineer who was stranded in the Snowstorm, was going down the mountain, but progress was slow because of the amount of snow that fell.
“Even for lifeguards, it’s not easy,” said a woman who didn’t give her name. “They have to clean the snow to make the way.
“I hope my husband’s team will surely arrive (rescue team).”
She said her husband could barely sleep because he was scared that his tent had crashed in the snow.
A strong extreme time range has recently influenced the mountain range.
The heavy rain this week left more than 40 Nepalese villagers dead after the landslides rejected them. In January, at least 126 people were killed in the same area.
– with files from Associated Press
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