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Disaster on Everest

Part of The Big Stories: 2015. 麻豆社 reporter Tom Martienssen returns to Nepal to find the men who were with him on Everest when April's devastating earthquake struck.

Part of The Big Stories: 2015. 麻豆社 reporter Tom Martienssen was half way up Mount Everest when an earthquake made the mountain shake. Tom and a team of British Army Gurkhas were trapped after a wall of rock and ice came crashing down around them. Their footage tells the story of an extraordinary rescue and of the people who lost their lives on Everest. After a second devastating quake, Tom returns to Nepal to find the men who were with him on the mountain and to discover how the country is coping amid continuing aftershocks.

30 minutes

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Mon 28 Dec 2015 02:30GMT
麻豆社 News North America & South Asia only

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Reporter Tom Martienssen
Producer John O'Kane
Executive Producer Andrew Head
Editor Ceri Thomas

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