In the most deadly accident on the world's highest peak, an avalanche swept the slopes of Mount Everest early Friday April 18,2014 killing at least 12 people
The avalanche occurred at around 6:45 am (0100 GMT) at an altitude of about 5,800 metres (19,000 feet) in an area known as the "popcorn field", which lies on the route into the treacherous Khumbu icefall
"We have
retrieved 12 bodies from the snow, we don't know how many more are
trapped underneath," Nepal Tourism Ministry official Dipendra Paudel
told
Assisted by rescue helicopters, teams of
climbers are still searching for survivors with at least seven people
plucked alive from the ice and snow
A rescue
team official working at the base camp of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot)
peak, Lakpa Sherpa, told a news agency that the death toll could rise as
high as 14.
An expert has termed today's accident as the "most deadly" in mountain's history.
More than 300 people have died on Everest since the first successful summit by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953
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