Jost Kobusch, a German climber, filmed an avalanche hitting the Everest Base Camp on Saturday, 25th April. The avalanche was triggered by the deadly earthquake in Nepal that killed over 3200 people.
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The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives.
- Jost Kobusch
Seventeen bodies were recovered on Mount Everest base camp after the earthquake making it the deadliest disaster in the history of mountaineering on the world’s highest peak.
Sixty-one people were injured when part of the base camp was engulfed by the snowslide, Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, told Reuters.