Beijing – According to Chinese state media, rescue workers helped hundreds of tourists who fell into a trap of heavy snow in tourist camps on the slope of Mount Everest in Tibet.
About 350 tourists reached the meeting point in the country of Tingry, and rescuers were in contact with another 200, the CCTV state broadcasting said. On Monday, there was no immediate update about rescue efforts.
According to the earlier report by Jimu News, the Chinese online site, the Chinese Internet site Jimu News turned out to be trapped at an altitude of more than 16,000 feet. Mount Everest is about 29,000 feet high.
The traveler who rushed to go down before the snow blocked the path, told Jimu News that others, still on the mountain, told him that snow depth of 3 feet and crushed tents.
Another traveler who got to security quotes Reuters information agency, which says: “The mountains were so wet and cold, and hypothermia was a real risk. The weather this year is not normal. The guide said that he had never encountered such a weather in October. And this happened too suddenly. ”
Hundreds of rescuers went uphill on Sunday to clear the ways to catch people who could go down, the Jimu report said. The video shot by a village resident showed a long line of people with horses and oxen moving along a winding path in the snow.
Geshuang Chen / handout through Reuters
Snow blizzards struck during a weekly national holiday in China, when many travel at home and abroad.
In another mountainous region in Western China, one traveler died of hypothermia and high -altitude illness, and 137 others were evacuated in the northern part of the province of Qinghai, CCTV said on Monday.
Searches in the area of ​​the menu district with an average height of more than 13 100 feet were complicated by the terrain, unpredictable weather and continuous snowfall, the CCTV reports.
Mount Everest, known as Mount Komolandma in Chinese, pierces the border between China and Nepal, where recent pouring rains wiped the villages and caused landslides, as a result of which more than 40 people died.
Climbers are trying to scale the highest peak in the world of basic camps in both countries. The base camp for climbers is separated from the tourist camp, where the travelers were trapped in snow.
In January, a strong earthquake died at least 126 people in the same area.
The Chinese side of Everest is located in Tibet, a remote Western region, where the government has strictly split into disagreement and laid out funds for economic development, including roads and tourism.
The Dalai -Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, escaped during an unsuccessful uprising in 1959 and lives in India, where some Tibetans created the government in exile.
