All stranded mountain climbers Mount Everest in safety after snowstorm

All remaining mountain climbers who were stuck on Mount Everest by a snowstorm were brought to safety on Tuesday. International press agencies report this in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. On Tuesday, about two hundred mountain climbers were safely transferred to the Tibetan side of the Berg. In total, since the snowstorm of last Friday and Saturday, 580 mountain climbers and three hundred local guides and shepherds have been brought to safety.

Last weekend hundreds of mountain climbers and guides got stuck in the Tibetan karma valley due to heavy snowfall. The valley is at more than four thousand meters, on the flanks of Mount Everest. Some of them were already brought to safety on Sunday. Since the snowstorm, the Chinese authorities keep the Tibetan side of the mountain closed.

The snowfall was not expected in this time of the year. Normally, just after the rainy season in the Himalayas, October is a suitable time to climb Mount Everest. This rain and snowfall was caused by the remains of a cyclone from the Gulf of Bengal. The bad weather cost the lives of dozens of people in Nepal during the weekend.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world (8,849 meters) and is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet. The best known way to climb the mountain is from Nepal, but the Tibetan climb is also found by more and more tourists. Tibet is formally an ‘autonomous region’ in China. The predominantly Buddhist region was incorporated by China in the 1950s, and has limited autonomy.

Mount Everest is an important source of income on both the Nepalese and Tibetan side. Every year about eight hundred people climb the mountain, while permits cost thousands of euros. Earlier this year, Nepal decided to make access for nearly a hundred other mountains for free, with the aim of relieving Mount Everest.

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