KATMANDU, Nepal: Mountaineers who survived a predawn avalanche high on the world’s eighth-tallest peak say they waited an hour for sunlight, and then saw pieces of tents and bodies of victims strewn around them on the snow. Veteran Italian climber Silvio Mondinelli said he and a fellow mountaineer were asleep when they heard a violent sound and felt their tent start to slide. “It was only a few seconds and we did not know what happened, but we had slid more than 200 meters [650 feet],” Mondinelli told...
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