In this photograph taken October 4, 2025 and launched by Lingsuiye, villagers with their oxen and horses ascend the mountain throughout rescue efforts to succeed in a whole lot of hikers trapped by heavy snow at vacationer campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet on Sunday, October 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP

About 900 hikers, guides and different workers who had been stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese aspect of Mount Everest have reached security, state media stated late Tuesday (October 7, 2025).

A extreme storm struck the world Saturday (October 4, 2025) night time, slicing off entry to the place the hikers had been staying in tents at an altitude of greater than 4,900 metres.

In all, 580 hikers and greater than 300 guides, yak herders and different employees had been stranded. About 350 hikers had been capable of descend by midday Monday (October 6, 2025) and the remainder had arrived by Tuesday (October 7, 2025), state media stated, citing the native authorities.

Some hikers reportedly had hypothermia, and the official Xinhua News Agency stated a couple of dozen of them had been escorted to a gathering level by groups with meals, drugs, heating and oxygen provides.

The scenic space at Mount Everest has been briefly closed. The storm struck throughout a weeklong nationwide vacation that ends on Wednesday (October 8, 2025).

In neighbouring Nepal, a South Korean climber died in a weekend storm close to the summit of Mera Peak, a 6,476-metre Himalayan mountain south of Everest.

Published – October 08, 2025 10:28 am IST

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