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Helicopters collide below Mount Everest base camp, killing 1 person and injuring 2 · Best of: Features

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  Helicopters collided below Mount Everest's base camp, killing one person and injuring
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  two This article is being read by an automated
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  voice generated by Everlet. Kathmandu Nepal the AP. Two helicopters
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  collided Tuesday while trying to land just below Mount Everest space camp,
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  killing at least one person and injuring two others, officials said. The
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  aircraft were ferrying trekkers who had been hiking up to Everest Base
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  Camp during Nepal's popular trekking season. Heavy snow had covered the route
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  before The
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  weather improved Sunday, and thousands of trekkers were able to move around.
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  There are no roads on Everest, and helicopters are the only way
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  to bring down trekkers and guides who become sick or exhausted in
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  the cold and high altitude. The helicopters crashed at Farishe village, which
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  is at four thousand two hundred metres thirteen thousand seven hundred and
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  eighty feet altitude. A 47-year-old tourist from India was killed in the
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  crash, according to Bhindra, a Solokumbu district administration officer. A
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  passenger from New Zealand was injured and was being transported to the
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  capital, Kathmandu, for treatment. A Nepali pilot sustained injuries, but was treated
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  locally. The number of people on the two helicopters wasn't clear. The
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  Mount Everest Basecamp Trek lasts up to two weeks and goes from
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  the only airstrip in the area at Lucla to base camp located
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  at five thousand three hundred meters, seventeen thousand three hundred and eighty
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  feet. The trek is popular during the fall season, right after the
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  rainy season and before the harsh winter months.