Mount Everest Horror: The Khumbu Icefall Avalanche
6/18/202637 min
On April 18th, 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice broke free above the Khumbu Icefall and killed sixteen Sherpa guides. It was the deadliest single disaster in Mount Everest's history. What followed wasn't just a rescue. It was a reckoning: a fight over $400 funeral payments, a historic strike, and the first time in ninety years that the world's most famous mountain went silent.
TW: Mass death, descriptions of fatal injuries
For more information on the 2013 Sherpa and Climber conflict, check out Kyle Hates Hiking’s video:
The EXACT Moment 100 Everest Sherpas Finally SNAPPED (caught on...
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Welcome back to another episode of Heart Starts Pounding. As always, I'm your host on this morbid adventure, Kalyn Moore. Recently, the spring climbing season of Everest came to a disastrous end. At first, it seemed like this was going to be the most successful Everest season ever. A record 1,008 climbers summited the mountain, the highest ever recorded. Lhakpa Sherpa summited for an 11th time, setting a record for women. Only five people died this season, which is low for the amount of visitors there were. But the success