Climbers are reconsidering whether they will continue their treks after an avalanche on Mount Everest killed at least 13 people.
Sherpa climbers aided by helicopters have resumed the search for up to four guides who are still missing after an ice avalanche swept the lower slopes in one of the deadliest accidents on the world's highest mountain.
Some climbers declared a four-day halt to efforts to scale Mount Everest and others decided to abandon their mission up the 8,848-metre summit. Others said they would go ahead after talking to their Nepali guides.
"I sat and counted 13 helicopter lifts - 12 were dead bodies flying overhead suspended by a long line from a helicopter," Tim Rippel of Peak Freaks Expeditions wrote in a blog.
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