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Barely no chance to escape
The avalanche from Pumori
The quite inconceivable really happened. A huge avalanche from Pumori, triggered by yesterday’s earthquake in Nepal, hit the Base Camp at the foot of Mount Everest at full force. The seven-thousander is located just opposite the highest mountain in the world. But hardly anyone had expected that an avalanche from Pumori would reach the edge of the Khumbu Icefall. “I ran and it just flattened me. I tried to get up and it flattened me again. I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was dead,” said George Foulsham, a mountaineer who lives in Singapore. The 38-year-old marine biologist was lucky and survived. It is not yet totally clear how many climbers lost their lives in Base Camp.
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26. April 2015 | 19:35
Airport, Annapurna, Avalanche, Earthquake, George Foulsham, Helicopter, Manaslu, Mount Everest, Pheriche, Pumori, Ralf Dujmovits, Rescue, Walther Luecker
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