Overview

• China’s Xinhua reports 580 hikers and over 300 local guides and yak herders arrived safely in Qudeng township and nearby areas of Dingri county.
• Rescuers guided about 350 people out on Sunday and completed evacuations of roughly 200 more on Tuesday in one of the region’s largest operations.
• Teams and local villagers used oxen and horses to reach camps, delivering food, medicine, oxygen and warming supplies before escorting staged descents.
• Authorities have temporarily closed the scenic area and are organizing orderly returns, with a small group escorted to a secure meeting point for aid.
• Emergency services reported a separate death in Qinghai linked to hypothermia and altitude sickness during the same storm period, which coincided with Golden Week travel.