Avalanche in Nepal’s Rolwaling Region Claims Three Lives; 8 Missing

Three persons, including two Nepali guides, were killed while eight others went missing in an avalanche that occurred at the Yalungri base camp in Rolwaling area of Gaurishankar rural municipality-9 in Nepal this morning. Yalung Ri is a trekking peak in the Great Himalayan trail in the Rolwaling region of Bagmati Province, standing at 5,630 meters. A foreign climber and two Nepali guides were killed in the avalanche. There were as many as 15 foreign climbers along with Nepali guides in the team....