Peregrinator
Hooded On A Hill
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Sorry for the size.
Ain't she purdy?
Just wondering, how deep was the heavy snow?
excerpted from: http://newsok.com/nepal-blizzard-avalanche-death-toll-rises-to-25/article/feed/747654
I have yet to see any estimates of the snowfall from this particular storm. As you would expect, it likely varied by location and altitude.
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"I was sure I was going to die on the way to the pass because I lost my group, I lost all the people I was with and I could not see anything," said Linor Kajan, an injured Israeli who said she was stuck in waist-deep snow.
"One Nepalese guide who knows the way saw me and asked me to stay with him. And he dragged me, really dragged me to the tea shop. And everybody there was really frightened," she said.
Another Israeli survivor, Yakov Megreli, said they tried to stay awake in the tea shop to stay warm.
"We tried not to sleep. We tried not to get hypothermia. It was a very frightening and awful situation," he said.
The blizzard, the tail end of a cyclone that hit the Indian coast a few days earlier, appeared to contribute to an avalanche that killed at least eight people in Phu village in neighboring Manang district. The dead included one Indian and four Canadian trekkers as well as three villagers, said government official Devendra Lamichane.
The foreigners' bodies were buried in up to 2 meters (6½ feet) of snow and digging them out will take days...