Everest snowfall traps dozens of hikers in mountain
lodges
Dozens
of foreign hikers and Nepali guides returning from a trekking trip to
the base camp of Mount Everest have been cut
off by heavy snowfall, a police official said on Sunday.
They have been forced to stay in four hotel
resorts in the Gokyo area near the world's tallest peak, which has been
battered by heavy snowfall following freak rains in the last 24 hours, police
officer Chandra Dev Rai said from Salleri, the nearest town.
Gokyo lies in Solukhumbu region where Mount Everest is located and is a popular destination for
hikers. Tens of thousands of trekkers and climbers visit the Solukhumbu
region in northeast Nepal
"There is chest-deep snow in the area.
There is no report of any casualty so far. If the snowfall continues for long
the tourists need emergency rescue," Mr Rai told Reuters by phone.
Most mountainous areas in Nepal
Weather officials in Kathmandu
said the bad weather could continue for a couple of days, worsening the plight
of the trapped tourists who could face a food shortage.
D.B. Koirala, chief of the Himalayan Rescue
Association Nepal, said he had not received any SOS call from the hikers.
December ends the peak tourist season in South Asia 's poorest country, which gets nearly four
percent of its gross domestic product from tourism.
Freak snowfall and avalanches triggered
by the tail of the Hudhud cyclone in October killed at least 43 foreign
and Nepali hikers in the popular Annapurna Circuit, in the west of the country.
An avalanche struck Mount
Everest during the peak climbing season in April killing 16 Nepali
guides in the deadliest incident on the world's tallest peak, forcing hundreds
of foreign climbers to abandon their ascent to the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet)
Everest summit.
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of the lead:
What: returning from a trekking trip to the base camp of Mount Everest have been cut off by heavy snowfall
Who: Dozens of foreign hikers and Nepali guides
How: a police official said
Why: Mount Everest have been cut off by
heavy snowfall
Where:
Mount Everest
When: Sunday
Keyword:
1. trekking 艱苦跋涉的
2. snowfall 降雪
3. peak 山頂
4. hiker 登山者
5. plight 困境
6. avalanche 雪崩
7. trigger 引發
8. cyclone 龍捲風
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