KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Just when Nepal’s climbing industry was recovering from last year’s deadly avalanche on Mount Everest, another avalanche triggered by last month’s earthquake killed 19 people, ...
The story that reporter Shane Galvin describes in the New York Post doesn’t sound like a mountaineering mishap so much as a slow-motion disaster that multiple people saw coming and nobody stopped.
Mountains don’t negotiate. They don’t care about your summit plans or your Instagram-worthy expedition. When the white death comes sliding down, physics becomes the only language that matters. This ...