Nine Sherpa guides were killed and three others were seriously injured Friday after a high-altitude avalanche on Mt. Everest, officials said.
Others were missing, but their numbers were not immediately known.
A group of about 50 people, mostly Nepali Sherpas, were hit by the avalanche at more than 20,000 feet, according to Tilak Ram Pandey, with the mountaineering department of the tourism ministry.
The avalanche took place just above base camp in the Khumbu Ice Fall, CNN informs.
The climbers were accounted for, Pandey said. “Rescue teams have gone … to look for the missing.”
