Overview
- Nearly 1,000 people were initially reported trapped around 4,900 meters in the Karma Valley during China’s Golden Week, with at least 350 evacuated to Qudang.
- Authorities say they are in contact with more than 200 additional trekkers who are being led to pickup points as conditions allow.
- The Tingri tourism office suspended ticket sales and closed the affected Everest scenic area as tents collapsed and access roads were buried by deep snow.
- Ground teams of firefighters, villagers and volunteer groups are clearing paths and escorting people on foot and with pack animals while communications remain intermittent.
- Regional tolls include one storm-linked death in China’s Qinghai and a separate South Korean climber’s death in Nepal, where floods and landslides have killed about 44–47 people; no new official rescue totals from Tibet were released on Tuesday.