NEPAL EARTHQUAKE

TENTS ARE SEEN SET UP FOR CLIMBERS ON THE KHUMBU GLACIER, WITH MOUNT KHUMBUTSE (CENTER) AND KHUMBU ICEFALL (RIGHT) SEEN IN BACKGROUND, AT EVEREST BASE CAMP IN NEPAL. AN AVALANCHE TRIGGERED BY A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE IN NEPAL SMASHED INTO A BASE CAMP BETWEEN THE KHUMBU ICEFALL, A NOTORIOUSLY TREACHEROUS RUGGED AREA OF COLLAPSED ICE AND SNOW, AND THE BASE CAMP WHERE MOST CLIMBING EXPEDITIONS ARE.

IN THIS PHOTO PROVIDED BY AZIM AFIF A MAN APPROACHES THE SCENE AFTER AN AVALANCHE TRIGGERED BY A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE SWEPT ACROSS EVEREST BASE CAMP, NEPAL ON SATURDAY. AFIF AND HIS TEAM OF FOUR OTHERS FROM THE UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA (UTM) ALL SURVIVED THE AVALANCHE.

TWENTY-TWO OF THE MOST SERIOUSLY INJURED CLIMBERS WERE TODAY FERRIED BY HELICOPTERS, INCLUDING FROM THE INDIAN AIR FORCE, TO PHERICHE VILLAGE, THE NEAREST MEDICAL FACILITY, THOUGH BAD WEATHER IS HAMPERING RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS.

MORE THAN 60 CLIMBERS WERE INJURED AND HUNDREDS OF FOREIGN ADVENTURERS, HIKERS AND GUIDES AT THE BASE CAMP WERE FEARED MISSING WHEN THE AVALANCHE SWEPT DOWN THE EVEREST AND BURIED UNDER SNOW A SECTION OF THE MOUNTAINEERING CAMP YESTERDAY.

AT LEAST 17 BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED AT THE BASE CAMP ON MOUNT EVEREST WHERE HUNDREDS OF CLIMBERS, INCLUDING MANY FOREIGNERS, ARE STILL STRANDED.

IN THIS PHOTO PROVIDED BY AZIM AFIF A MAN APPROACHES THE SCENE AFTER AN AVALANCHE TRIGGERED BY A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE SWEPT ACROSS EVEREST BASE CAMP, NEPAL ON SATURDAY. AFIF AND HIS TEAM OF FOUR OTHERS FROM THE UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA (UTM) ALL SURVIVED THE AVALANCHE.

THIS PHOTO SHOWS NIGHTFALL AFTER THE AVALANCHE. TOURISM MINISTRY OFFICIALS ESTIMATED THAT AT LEAST 1,000 CLIMBERS, INCLUDING ABOUT 400 FOREIGNERS, HAD BEEN AT THE BASE CAMP WHEN NEPAL'S WORST EARTHQUAKE IN 80 YEARS.

CLIMBERS AND GUIDES CARRY AN INJURED AFTER AN AVALANCHE STRUCK EVEREST BASE CAMP IN NEPAL. THE AVALANCHE BEGAN ON MOUNT KUMORI, A 7,000-METER-HIGH MOUNTAIN JUST A FEW MILES FROM EVEREST, AND GAINED STRENGTH AS IT HEADED DOWNWARDS TOWARDS THE BASE CAMP, FLATTENING AT LEAST 30 TENTS.

A GENERAL VIEW OF THE BASANTAPUR DURBAR SQUARE THAT WAS DAMAGED IN THE EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT NEPAL ON SATURDAY, 25 APRIL. THE EARTHQUAKE CENTERED OUTSIDE KATHMANDU, WAS THE WORST TO HIT THE SOUTH ASIAN NATION IN OVER 80 YEARS.

KATHMANDU 'S LANDMARK BHIMSEN TOWER LIES IN RUIN AFTER THE MASSIVE NEPAL EARTHQUAKE. THE NATURAL DISASTER DESTROYED LARGE PARTS OF THE OLDEST NEIGHBORHOODS OF KATHMANDU.

A PILLAR WHERE A STATUE OF GARUD, A HINDU DIVINE CHARACTER, STOOD IS PARTIALLY DAMAGED AFTER SATURDAY’S EARTHQUAKE AT THE BASANTAPUR DURBAR SQUARE IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL. THE EARTHQUAKE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BE FELT ALL ACROSS PARTS OF INDIA, BANGLADESH, CHINA'S REGION OF TIBET AND PAKISTAN.

A BUILDING STANDS DAMAGED AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL ON 25 APRIL 2015. A STRONG MAGNITUDE-7.9 EARTHQUAKE SHOOK NEPAL'S CAPITAL AND THE DENSELY POPULATED KATHMANDU VALLEY BEFORE NOON SATURDAY, CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE WITH TOPPLED WALLS AND COLLAPSED BUILDINGS, OFFICIALS SAID.

PEOPLE STAND AROUND DAMAGE CAUSED BY AN EARTHQUAKE AT DURBAR SQUARE IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL ON 25 APRIL 2015.

RESIDENTS WERE SEEN RUSHING OUT OF THEIR HOMES WITH SEVERAL BEING RUSHED TO HOSPITALS IN NEPAL.