{"id":477223,"date":"2025-10-06T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477223\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T02:58:10","slug":"mount-everest-rescue-under-way-after-hundreds-trapped-on-tibetan-slopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477223\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest: Rescue under way after hundreds trapped on Tibetan slopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we know so farpublished at 02:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>02:13 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Snowfall in the valley of Karma, which leads to the eastern face of Everest, began on Friday evening and continued through Saturday &#8211; leaving hundreds of hikers stranded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local media <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">initially said around 1,000 hikers were stranded.<\/b> On Monday, Chinese state media reported that 350 people were evacuated while around <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">200 remaining have been contacted<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to clear out snow blocking access to the area, which sits at an <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">altitude of more than 4,900m<\/b> (16,000ft).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tticket sales and entry to Everest Scenic Area have been <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">suspended since Saturday<\/b> due to heavy snowfall, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the past week domestic tourism has boomed in China, which is in the middle of its week-long National Day holiday known as the Golden Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we know so farpublished at 02:13 BST 02:13 BST Snowfall in the valley of Karma, which leads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-477223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115324984085582535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}