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Deadly Snowstorm Strikes Everest Amid Record Snowfall and Rescue Efforts

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Source: BBC
Deadly Snowstorm Strikes Everest Amid Record Snowfall and Rescue Efforts
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The autumn climbing season in the Himalayas is becoming increasingly dangerous due to extended monsoon rains, unexpected blizzards, and extreme weather caused by climate change and interactions between monsoon and westerly disturbances, leading to accidents, fatalities, and disruptions in trekking and mountaineering activities.

Topics:worldenvironment#autumn-weather#climate-change#environment#himalayas#monsoon#mountaineering-risks
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  1. How the autumn climbing season turned deadly in the Himalayas  BBC
  2. Mount Everest Just Recorded Some of Its Most Intense Snowfall Ever  The New York Times
  3. 'I was lucky to get out': Everest hikers battle hypothermia as blizzard rescue continues  BBC
  4. Trekker uses cooking pots to dig her way out of freak blizzard on Everest  CNN
  5. Remaining trekkers rescued from Mount Everest after snowstorm  The Washington Post

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