Everest hikers guided to safety after being stranded by blizzard

According to the Chinese state media, a total of 580 hikers trapped by violent weather conditions near Mount Everest were directed to security at Tibet.

CCTV, on Tuesday, Trekks, 300 local guides, Yak operators and other support personnel came to the Küçük district of Qtang and the surrounding area.

A last group of about 10 hikers accompanied by rescue workers has not yet reached Quang, but heating equipment has reached a meeting point with oxygen and other emergency materials.

After the violent snowfall, after raising the eastern slopes of Everest at the weekend, tourists were stranded at a height of a higher height than 4,900 meters (16.000FT).

Blizzard hit China’s eight -day golden week holiday, the most intense season for local tourism.

October usually provides open sky and friendly temperatures, which makes it one of the months that prefer to walk in the Mount Everest.

Hundreds of hikers moved towards the mixed Valley hiking trail, a less known but natural way to the base of Everest – this presented the view of the world’s highest peak.

The violent snow started on Friday evening, concentrated on the weekend and caught the mountain guides on duty.

A trekker, who visited his Himalaylar more than a dozen, told the BBC that he never “never experienced such air”.

27 -year -old Dong Shuchang said a few people in the 20 group showed a symptom of hypothermia.

Chen Geshuang, a part of Mr. Dong’s walking group, said that when the band started to withdraw on Sunday, the abdomen was about one meter deep.

“We’re all experienced hikers,” Mrs. Chen said. “But it was still extremely difficult to deal with this snow storm. I was very lucky to go out.”

Police, firefighters and hundreds of local Tibetan volunteers were expelled for rescue efforts.

Another woman said that her husband, who was stuck in the BBC, barely slept in her tent because she was afraid of being buried in the snow.

He told Eric Wen Reuters that three people in the group suffered from hypothermia, even though they were dressed enough.

It was very snow and the band had to clean the snow every 10 minutes.

“Otherwise, our tents would collapse,” he added.

In a separate mountainous region in Western China, CCTV, in Qinghai province, a hikers died of hypothermia and altitude disease and 137 people were evacuated.

The neighbor Nepal was beaten by heavy rains and heavy rains that triggered landslides who killed more than 50 people in the south of Tibet.