En route: Villagers with their oxen and horses ascending the mountain during rescue efforts to reach hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet. — AP
ONE hiker has died and hundreds of others have been rescued after sudden heavy snowfall in China’s northwest and western mountain regions over the weekend, state media reported.
Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet were guided to safety as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummelled the Himalayas.
