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BBC reporter Tom Martienssen was halfway up Mount Everest when an earthquake made the mountain shake.
Tom and a team of British Army Gurkhas were trapped after a wall of rock and ice came crashing down around them.
Their footage tells the story of an extraordinary rescue and of the people who lost their lives on Everest.
After a second devastating quake, Tom returns to Nepal to find the men who were with him on the mountain and to discover how the country is coping amid continuing aftershocks.
Joe French, an experienced climber who was at Base Camp when the earthquake hit, described what it was like to be caught in the middle of such a devastating avalanche.
And Major Andrew Todd, who was helping to lead a group of fellow Gurkha soldiers in their effort to reach the summit, spoke about what was faced by those stranded at Camp 1.
April 2015
#EverestEarthQuake #Everest2015
BBC reporter Tom Martienssen was halfway up Mount Everest when an earthquake made the mountain shake.
Tom and a team of British Army Gurkhas were trapped after a wall of rock and ice came crashing down around them.
Their footage tells the story of an extraordinary rescue and of the people who lost their lives on Everest.
After a second devastating quake, Tom returns to Nepal to find the men who were with him on the mountain and to discover how the country is coping amid continuing aftershocks.
Joe French, an experienced climber who was at Base Camp when the earthquake hit, described what it was like to be caught in the middle of such a devastating avalanche.
And Major Andrew Todd, who was helping to lead a group of fellow Gurkha soldiers in their effort to reach the summit, spoke about what was faced by those stranded at Camp 1.
April 2015
#EverestEarthQuake #Everest2015
