{"id":15190,"date":"2015-04-27T06:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2015-04-27T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T12:27:17","slug":"video-avalanche-strikes-everest-base-camp-as-earthquake-hits-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/video-avalanche-strikes-everest-base-camp-as-earthquake-hits-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Avalanche strikes Everest base camp as earthquake hits Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-rlgYjaM1q9Y\/VT4pYpsk2_I\/AAAAAAAADYQ\/-zrTJFVw9b0\/s640\/2015-04-27_061251.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds of snow and ice roar down Mount Everest.  Watch the stunning video below. (YouTube \/ Jost Kobusch)\" width=\"303\" height=\"170\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clouds of snow and ice roar down Mount Everest. Watch the stunning video below. (YouTube \/ Jost Kobusch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the death toll from Saturday\u2019s massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal continues to climb, a stunning video has emerged showing an avalanche striking the Mount Everest base camp.<\/p>\n<p>The video, taken by German climber Jost Kobusch, was discovered on YouTube yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In it, climbers preparing for their ascent of the world\u2019s highest peak first get a sense something is amiss when the ground starts rumbling.\u00a0 Soon, a massive wall of snow is seen coming down the mountain and engulfing the videographer.<\/p>\n<p>While Kobusch survived, at least 18 other climbers on the mountain died.\u00a0 Overall the death toll from the earthquake has reached nearly 3,800, most of whom perished in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>On the mountain, the Khumbu Icefall, the primary way up the mountain, has been blocked.\u00a0 Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa\u2019s were trapped at the higher camps and are now being evacuated by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the stunning video below.\u00a0 Adult language warning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CNN:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/27\/asia\/nepal-earthquake-mount-everest\/index.html\">Latest Nepal earthquake news<\/a><\/li>\n<li>USGS:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us20002926#general_summary\">April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake details<\/a><\/li>\n<li>9News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/story\/news\/2015\/04\/26\/denver-born-filmmaker-killed-on-mount-everest\/26416025\/\">Colorado climbers among those killed, trapped<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_JC_wIWUC2U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the death toll from Saturday\u2019s massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal continues to climb, a stunning video has emerged showing an avalanche striking the Mount Everest base camp. The video, taken by German climber Jost Kobusch, was discovered on YouTube yesterday. In it, climbers preparing for their ascent of the world\u2019s highest peak first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/video-avalanche-strikes-everest-base-camp-as-earthquake-hits-nepal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Avalanche strikes Everest base camp as earthquake hits Nepal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[644,709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15191,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions\/15191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}