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Meters, just because of the earthquakes and all that and the glaciers coming down and the snow on top. this is the first time so many people have gotten in the way. >> you know, they prepare for things like this, right, there are sherpas, right, that's their expertise. can you really prepare for something like this? >> not when you don't know that above up here where the ice fall came from it's a ledge or it's loose or it's going to move down the hill because it got down the hill. there were so many people in the carp missed. all these people already in the camp said they saw dust and ice and ...

Fall, because ice falls there. it's been happening all week long. this is the first time people actually got in the way of these ice falls. they're putting ropes up so the climbers eventually in may can make their way up. they're bringing food and medicine and supplies up to these other camps so that when the climbers finally start going in that direction, there will be supplies for them. here's the khumba glacier, here's the khumba icefall, as we move up to camp. the steepness of these -- i did not change these at all, straight out of google earth digital globe, this is how steep the sides of...

It is the single deadliest stent accident on the world's tallest mountain. a deadly accident on mt. everest killed at least three sherpa guides. this sherpa is in intensive care in kathmandu hospital. a rescue operation is under way. officials in nepal say this happened just below camp one, more than 20,000 feet above sea level. the guides were preparing the route to the summit for climbers. meteorologist chad myers. what an awful story. what kind of conditions are these climbers facing? >> 10 degrees right now, fahrenheit, winds at about 15 to 20 miles per hour. not great. these ice falls, th...