“Lukla is a small town in the Khumbu Pasang Lhamu rural municipality of the Solukhumbu District in the Koshi Province of northeastern Nepal. Situated at 2,860 metres (9,383 ft) above sea level, it is a popular place for visitors to the Himalayas near Mount Everest to arrive. Although Lukla means…”
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town in the Himalayan foothills
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Another climber captured video of the frantic operation to free the two people who were buried by ice after a serac collapsed in the Khumbu Icefall
airport approximately 40 miles away