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Nepal trekking disaster: Injured climbers released from hospital

1,751 views · Published 19 October 2014 · 2:19 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: The Telegraph · 2014 · News & Politics

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Injured Israeli trekkers who were receiving treatment at a hospital in Katmandu, following this week's series of snow storms and avalanches, were taken to the airport on Saturday ahead of their return to Israel. 
Meanwhile, a rescue helicopter spotted nine more bodies on a trekking trail in northern Nepal on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 38 in the worst hiking disaster in the Himalayan nation. 
The victims are most likely Nepalese porters, according to an official with the Trekking Agents Association of Nepal. 
Dolpa district is next to Manang and Mustang districts in the popular Annapurna mountain range trekking trail where most of the foreign trekkers and Nepalese guides and villagers were killed this week. 
Among the dead were Canadians, Indians, Israelis, Slovaks and Poles. 
While more than 300 people have been rescued, sometimes plucked from mountainsides by helicopters and taken to nearby villages and towns, dozens more are still taking shelter in isolated mountain huts, said a government administrator. 
The snow storms were whipped by the tail end of a cyclone that hit the Indian coast a few days earlier. 
The weather has since improved and sunny skies and calm wind conditions were helping the rescue efforts. 

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