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>> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> youre looking at brand new video of the avalanche on mount everest. at of now,b three americans are dead and more than 100 are reportedly still missing. >> this is some of the video you can see. i think this is from one of the base camps. people go when you decide youre going to go up mt. everest, you go to a base camp for a month or five or six weeks so you can aclimate. that is one of those go pros as that shaker happened. you look at it and its utter devastation. it...

There for a day maybe two. they have been up there for two already. >> its the section between base camp and camps one and two we keep hearing about? >> correct. >> the avalanche stabilized that. its not easy to transport. >> you continued go up or down. >> we heard from one of the climbers theyre thinking of maybe makening an ascent. part of that calculation is theyre worried about being worse if they go back down to kathmandu. how bad do you think it can get in that city? >> it is pretty bad a...

Towns and villages. so that death toll, which currently stands at around 4,000, is almost certainly going to rise significantly higher, shep. >> certainly makes sense sadly. jonathan, thank you. lets bring in michael kubold. climb mt. everest twice a watchmaking business in nepal and had employees over there part of a relief effort over there. its my understanding you had contact with friends on the mountain? >> yes. weve been in contact. apparent live theyre stuck because of the avalanche that ...

To most safely get off the mountain. bill: in addition youve had several aftershocks too some of those very strong. >> thats right. bill: the case that the threat is not over, lisa. >> no. that is why going through, descending everest through the ice fall would be just a horrific thought, at this point. bill: what is the ice fall? >> yeah, that is the ice fall. that is the pretty much the most difficult section going from base camp up to camp one and for our climbers that want to get back down t...

Dont know. >> well, we do know its about ten shers a sherpas who are higher than camp 2. theyre setting up the fixed lines up to the summit of everest. mt. everest is the only mountain that has lines from the bottom to the top. >> what about people who might have been climbing too. early for that. >> theyre just acclimb tieing at camps 1 and 2. >> lots of people at the base camp. >> yes. >> what do we know about the situation with those people, if theyre able to get what they need? >> those peop...

Houses have been damaged by the earthquake and if they want to go home of course they should go home. nepal has to figure out. what about all the tourists? is it good for nepal they are leaving or they spend dollars so nepal can build some currency to rebuild the country? >> lets separate what you have lived through in the past what was it like up there to feel the initial affects of the earthquake and aftershocks? and are any still coming? >> reporter: well i was one of the i would say lucky on...

There, are none accounted for. one man who has climbed everest says on a good day it takes six hours to get through the ice fall to camp 1. so you start at the base camp. then heres the icefall. this is four football fields long, but says this attacks four to six hours on a good day. today its impossible. rescue teams can not get through. the quake was nepals worst in more than 80 years and i can show you some destruction over here in monster. it has been a series of crazy pictures to take a loo...

Ice, snow coming towards me and it was extremely high and coming extremely fast. and normally in base camp youre safe from avalanches because they die at the bottom of the mountain but the earthquake triggered, must have shaken all the ice and rock off the mountain and i ran as fast as i could to get shelter knowing it would outpace me at some point and smashed into me and smashed me to the ground and to rock ice, and it was a suffocating experience as the snow starts to fill your lungs and you ...

Seconds. this quake rocking the tallest mountain on earth, mt. everest, a terrifying climber capturing the terrifying moment. a wall of snow slamming into his base camp. >> whoa whoa. whoa. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ sound of wind ] >> hold on to my jacket. hold on to my jacket. >> your okay? >> yeah. >> are you all right? >> yeah. [ heavy breathing ] many on the mountain are still missing and we month 17 climbers did not survive among them four americans. last hour i talked to an american climber ...

Need just basic things like food and blankets and medical treatment. and here on top of the thousands killed tens of thousands of people have been sleeping outside because the aftershocks are so bad theyre afraid to go inside. united nations say the earthquake affected more than 8 million people. get to jonathan hunt, who us following the developments. what else too we know about the americans who died in this? report there are four confirmed american deaths, and we should caution that the numbe...