2015 Mount Everest avalanches

2015 Mount Everest avalanches
Mount Everest's North face from Tibet
Date25 April 2015
LocationBase Camp, Mount Everest
CauseAvalanche
Deaths24
Non-fatal injuries61

In the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a MW 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries. Tremors from the quake triggered an avalanche from Pumori into Base Camp on Mount Everest. At least twenty-two people were killed, surpassing the toll of an avalanche that occurred in 2014 as the deadliest disaster on the mountain.[1]

  1. ^ Fuller, Thomas; Buckley, Chris (26 April 2015). "Earthquake Aftershocks Jolt Nepal as Death Toll Rises Above 3,400". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.