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Us to be a little warmer. when i came out of the tent they were really getting clouded on both side i and my teammates reported we all thought this was probably it. we survived the first one. we were nervous over that 40 hours as there were motor tremor-- more tremors and we were saved. >> jim, are you at the mountain base camp. are you going to come down? going to summit? whats the plan? >> caller: well we are, my team are going to fwloi down on helicopters today from camp one and camp two. so ...

New video shows trees shaking. the death toll rose to over 3600. that number is expected to rise as many places are nearly impossible to reach by foot. entire villages can be wiped out and after the initial quake, there was this. >> oh, my gosh. hurry. >> those are the moments after a major avalanche came crashing down. 18 people died in the base camp below. the international community is rallying to help. the u.s. is sending an aircraft carrying 45 people. even the l.a. fire department is lendi...

Good monday afternoon from the deck. trapped with nowhere to run. video shows the terrifying moments of deadly wall of snow and ice slamming into the base camp at mt. everest after the earthquake in nepal that killed thousands of people. >> the ground is shaking. [bleep] >> go, go. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] publish bleep. >> the claimer who recorded the video survived that avalanche. at least 18 others oner of everest did not. officials say the earthquake killed more than 4,000 people. thats the n...

We know you have a herculean task you and the other doctors there. thank you for taking time and, of course well check back in with you. lets go over to chris. >> one of the reasons sanjay is saying this is as bad as you have seen is you have a disaster within the disaster going on. on the ground you have people starting to climb out of the rubble trying to get anywhere they can into the civilian centers where they can get help. meanwhile, still on mount everest there are people trapped. every t...

Good. we had no injuries no fatalities everything is fine for our teach but for base camp and some of the other teams, it has been devastating. >> devastateing meaning what? what have you snaerd what have you seen? >> reporter: well, some of the people who were trapped up on the mountain came down now to see the what remained of their camp and some camps have been completely wined out. base camp is probably 500 tents around around 45 expeditions and some of them are gone they have been wiped out...

Sfoek me from base camp about 18,000 feet at altitude and hes there helping those who are injured. >> it wasnt a traditional avalanche because the earthquake triggered an ice fall coming down and that ice fall collide with a land mass adjacent to the glacier and the base camp and so it wasnt like burying people it was like this air compressed blast that came across. the injuries are more something you see out of the midwest like when you have a tornado or hurricane force winds. >> kathmandu, thi...

Go there realize that ice fall and things like that an avalanche, those are objective hazards we cant control and you always have to remember in the back of your mind that that is a very real possibility. and, you have to be ready to deal with the consequences. if that means also losing a summit bid that is always a possibility. bill: your life comes first. >> thats right. bill: youve been staying in touch with this story clearly. there were 17 killed on everest after that avalanche. at least 10...

To camp. they have to get used to it. they exercise a little more. and then after about five or six weeks, youre at this peak fitness and then you make your attempt to the summit. stay any longer than that and youre diminishing rewards and sort of lose all your strength. >> in all, you invest about how much time? when you take a trip like this let alone its -- its very difficult to get to it may take you days if not a couple weeks just to get, you know to kathmandu from wherever you are in the w...

Down. they were stuck when the avalanches hit. >> couldnt imagine that. thats the worst plaps place they could have been stuck. no, i cant see it. the weather here is so bad, it has been snowing for the last many days. so we havent been able to see the mountains very well. >> also, carson, you mentioned that in this most recent aftershock occurred there were some sherpas on the way trying to reach camps one and two. >> yeah. i dont know -- yeah. our base camp has a doctor and he told us this mor...

Helicopters rescuing people off base camp today. >> when these avalanches occur, can you even begin to describe what that sounds like considering that you are stuck there in that bowl at base camp? >> well, its -- the avalanche yesterday was different because immediately after the shock that shaking all the loose rocks and we were starting running. the avalanche came in and it was unbelievable. it was so tall and we knew that if we didnt run, we wouldnt have a chance to get to safety. we were wa...