https://www.theadventuremedic.com/adventures/avalanche-everest/ Wilderness, Expedition & Humanitarian Medicine Magazine Thu, 08 May 2025 18:37:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.17 https://www.theadventuremedic.com/adventures/avalanche-everest/#comment-67 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:09:14 +0000 http://www.theadventuremedic.com/?p=2896#comment-67 […] Sadly, this took place following a year of disasters for the Himalayan kingdom. On 14 October 2014, the effects of Cyclone Hudhud reached Nepal’s Annapurna region – destination for 60% of the country’s trekking and mountaineering visitors – causing severe snowstorms and avalanches that killed 43 people. Months earlier, on 18 April 2014, Nepal suffered the great loss of 16 Sherpa to another avalanche on Mount Everest. […]

]]> https://www.theadventuremedic.com/adventures/avalanche-everest/#comment-47 Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:28:27 +0000 http://www.theadventuremedic.com/?p=2896#comment-47 […] may remember Sophie Wallace’s impressive and moving article following the devastating avalanche of 18 April this year in which 16 sherpas were killed and […]

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