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From the 2014 Khumbu Icefall to the earthquake that swept Everest Base Camp in 2015 — the deadliest avalanches in Nepal's mountains, their causes and…
By Dawa Sherpa · Aug 29, 2026
An avalanche is the hazard that a Himalayan guide thinks about most and controls least. You can read the weather, choose the hour, keep the group moving through the exposed ground before the sun loosens the snow — and still the mountain decides. Nepal's…
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At 11:56 on 25 April 2015, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck central Nepal. On Everest, the shaking loosed a serac avalanche off Pumori that swept across Base Camp; at least 22 people were killed and more than 60 injured, making it the deadliest single…
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On 14 October 2014, at the height of the autumn season, the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud collided with a mountain trough and dropped nearly 1.8 metres of snow on the Annapurna Circuit in around twelve hours. The worst of it caught trekkers on and around the…
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Five months earlier, on 18 April 2014, seracs failed on the western shoulder of Everest and sent an ice avalanche across the Khumbu Icefall at about 5,800 m, in a section climbers call the popcorn field. Sixteen Sherpa climbers — the men who carry loads and…
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Two patterns run through this list. First, the biggest tolls come not from bad decisions on a trail but from forces above it — an earthquake, a cyclone's tail, a serac that had been waiting for years. Second, the mountain does not distinguish between a client…
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The famous trekking trails are open and safe when they are timed and guided well. These are the two we run most: Everest Base Camp Trek — 14 days · the walk-in, not the icefall Annapurna Base Camp Trek — 7 days · the Sanctuary, timed for stable…
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