BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers had been serving to lots of of hikers trapped by heavy snow at vacationer campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese language state media mentioned.
About 350 hikers had reached a gathering level in Tingri nation and rescuers had been involved with one other 200, state broadcaster CCTV mentioned late Sunday.
There was no rapid replace on rescue efforts on Monday.
The hikers had been trapped at an elevation of greater than 4,900 meters (16,000 toes), in keeping with an earlier report from Jimu Information, a Chinese language on-line web site.
Mount Everest is about 8,850 meters (29,000 toes) tall.
A hiker who rushed to descend earlier than snow blocked the way in which informed Jimu Information that others nonetheless on the mountain informed him the snow was 1 meter (3 toes) deep and had crushed tents.
A whole lot of rescuers headed up the mountain Sunday to clear paths in order that trapped individuals might come down, the Jimu report mentioned.
A video shot by a villager confirmed a protracted line of individuals with horses and oxen transferring up a winding path within the snow.
The snowstorm struck throughout a weeklong nationwide vacation in China, when many journey at house and overseas.
In one other mountainous area in western China, one hiker died of hypothermia and altitude illness and 137 others had been evacuated within the north a part of Qinghai province, CCTV mentioned Monday.
The search in an space in Menyuan county with a mean altitude of greater than 4,000 meters (13,100 toes) was sophisticated by the terrain, unpredictable climate and steady snowfall, a CCTV on-line report mentioned.
Mount Everest, often called Mount Qomolangma in Chinese language, straddles the border between China and Nepal, the place current heavy rains have left greater than 40 individuals useless.
Climbers try and scale the world’s tallest peak from base camps in each international locations. The bottom camp for climbers is separate from the vacationer camp the place hikers had been trapped by the snowfall.
A robust earthquake killed at the least 126 individuals in the identical space in January.
The Chinese language facet of Everest is in Tibet, a distant western area the place the federal government has cracked down harshly on dissent and poured in funds for financial growth together with roads and tourism.
The Dalai Lama, the religious chief of Tibetan Buddhism, fled throughout a failed rebellion in 1959 and lives in India, the place some Tibetans have arrange a authorities in exile.
