Rescue
teams reach stranded climbers on Mount Everest
(Vatican Radio) As the rescue operation continues for survivors
following the massive earthquake in Nepal, teams have been trying to reach
climbers stranded on Mount Everest.
An avalanche trigged by the quake killed 17 people on the mountain
and many climbers remain trapped but safe at camps 1 and 2.
Gianpietro Verza is a mountain guide and the Technical Director of
EvK2CNR Research Centre at the foot of Mount Everest.
It is a high altitude centre at 5000 metres and monitors air
pollution and seismic activity in the area. He has been in constant contact
with the institute on the ground and was able to tell Lydia O’Kane that the
weather is “a little bit better,” adding that “ it looks like the climbers
stuck at camps 1 and camp 2 … have been fully evacuated , we hope so…” Mr Verza
also said that “from base camp also other people that were injured during the
avalanche were evacuated.
Climbers at base camp, according to the Technical Director are
still worried about avalanches due to the continued seismic activity. He says
that experts at the centre think that seismic activity is going to continue in
the coming days.
Regarding problems in gaining access to remote villages affected
by the disaster, he says that this is of great concern because “there are a lot
of remote areas going up to high villages also.” The higher areas of Nepal, the
team at the centre suspect, have been damaged due to avalanches but also
landslides.
Gianpietro Verza says that the centre’s research would suggest
that this disaster is on the same scale as the earthquake that struck Nepal 80
years ago, claiming thousands of lives
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