With over 3200 people now confirmed dead and another 6500 people injured, Nepal is overwhelmed by the aftereffects of the worst natural disaster in that area in over 80 years. The earthquake and subsequent avalanche on Mount Everest is now the mountain’s single deadliest event, with at least 18 people dead. Among the dead on Everest are Dan Fredinburg, the first American confirmed casualty, Dr. Marisa Eve Girawong, a medic at one of the Everest base camps, and American filmmaker Tom Taplin, who was working on a documentary when the avalanche struck.
Amazingly, there is video of the earthquake and avalanche as it struck. (Warning: profanity, and a lot of it.)
The family of Dan Fredinburg has confirmed that he was killed today in the avalanche on Mount Everest following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Fredinburg, age 33, was…
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal just before noon local time today, killing a minimum of a thousand people and leveling historic buildings. The death toll is…
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