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Nepal blizzards: Toll rises to 39
At least 39 climbers have died on a key Nepali hiking route after it was hit by major snowstorms and avalanches earlier this week, officials say.’
What is Annapurna Circuit?
- Roughly 241km (150 miles), takes around three weeks to complete
- Described as "the best long distance trek in the world"
- Known as the "apple pie" circuit due to the baked goods offered by tea houses along the route
- Ascends to 5,416m (17,776ft) at the Thorung La Pass
- Opened to tourists in 1977 after conflicts between guerrillas and the Nepalese army were resolved
- Circuit passes Mount Annapurna, world's 10th highest mountain and one of the most dangerous
Khatmandu: At least 39 climbers have died on a key Nepali hiking route after it was hit by major snowstorms and avalanches earlier this week, officials say.’
Mountain rescue teams are out for the fourth day, searching for missing trekkers, and it is feared more bodies lie beneath the snow.
A total of 282 people have been rescued from the mountain ranges in what is Nepal's worst-ever trekking disaster. Some climbers have accused their guides of abandoning them.
A spokesman for the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal told the AFP news agency the focus of the rescue operation was now geared towards the recovery of bodies.
The BBC's Andrew North in Nepal says that it is still not clear which climbers have been accounted for and which are still missing.
The task of the authorities is made more complicated because there are thousands of climbers in Nepal at this time of the year, rescuers have only limited resources and most of the missing and dead are believed to be at heights of around 5,000m (16,000ft), our correspondent says.
Nepalese, Israeli, Canadian, Indian, Slovak and Polish trekkers are among the dead. Many survivors have been left with severe frostbite and will have to have limbs amputated. On Saturday, helicopters were again searching the area around a high mountain pass on the Annapurna Trail, where most of the deaths occurred.
