Overview

• State broadcaster reports more than 350 people were brought down to Qudang on Sunday, with roughly 200 others set to descend in stages with rescuers’ help.
• Local authorities suspended ticket sales and access to the Everest tourist zone on Saturday night through official WeChat notices.
• CCTV cites security services confirming one hiker’s death in Qinghai from hypothermia and altitude sickness, with additional evacuations reported there.
• Survivors described whiteout conditions, tents threatened by accumulating snow, and hours of digging as visibility of Everest vanished.
• Across the border in Nepal, days of heavy rain triggered landslides and flash floods that killed about 47–50 people, with search and rescue operations continuing.