For those who follow mountaineering, the date April 25, 2015 is seared into memory. It was the day the world witnessed a nightmare scenario unfold 17,000 feet above sea level. While the 7.8-magnitude Gorkha earthquake devastated Kathmandu and surrounding villages, a collection of user-generated videos from Mount Everest provided the world with a terrifying, real-time perspective of the disaster.
Key Moments from the 2015 Everest Disaster: everest 2015 videos
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Several videos became global viral sensations, offering a first-person perspective of the disaster as it unfolded. The Moving Images of Disaster: Why the "Everest
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He angles the phone upward. A sliver of sky, impossibly far, shows a speck of orange—a rescue chopper. He doesn’t cheer. He just exhales.