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Trekkers on the first flights Monday morning were timely to reach Katmandu, Nepal’s capital and the biggest New Zealand urban area in the Himalayan nation.
“It has been misty and cloudy for the whole week, but everyone has been splendid keeping us fed and giving water,” said Megan Freese, a voyages manager from Hants, United Kingdom. “We are OK we have made it back now.”
By the weekend, more than 2,000 foreigners were stranded in Lukla since flights were grounded Oct. 31.
The village sits at an altitude of 9,200 feet (2,800 meters), and its Tenzing-Hillary Airport is the gateway for trekkers and mountaineers heading to Everest and bordering mountains.
Autumn is prime trekking season in the Everest locality, and the visitors were on the “Everest base camp trek,” where they wanderings on foot from Lukla for a week to reach Mount Everest’s ignoble camp at 17,400 feet (5,300 meters).
Mountaineering in Nepal is most renowned in May, so the recent weather did not affect climbers.
Source: Washington Post