cnn.com/impact. next look at this video behind me. it was taken during the earthquake and it is shocking. it captured the terror of climbers caught on mount everest right when the avalanche hit right after the earthquake. i spoke with the man who shot the video and survived. that s next. boy: once upon a time, there was a nice house that lived with a family. one day, it started to rain and rain. water got inside and ruined everybody s everythings. the house thought she let the family down.
offering around $3500 to families of victims killed in india and at least 17 people are dead on mt. everest as the quake triggered avalanches. this is a photograph taken while an avalanche hit the everest based camp. whoever took that picture is quite brave and we hope they are okay. aid organizations are desperate for food, medicine and clean water. it s on the way. several countries, many countries have already started shipping supplies to nepal. as you know, these things take time when there s such a massive chaotic scene. aid workers are bringing much-needed food and water to survivors. tourists are using bare hands to try to pull survivors from the rubble. pakistan, the u.s., china, india, all among those offering help. let s go now to cnn s our
could not outrun it. i hid behind a stone where i could hardly breathe but i could stay until the avalanche was over. that probably saved your life, don t you think? it did and i was just 20 inches from the camp. go ahead, please. if we had come down. we were tracking down from camp one and met some people going up when we came down. immediately after the avalanche hit and we saw injured staff coming in to our camp, we have a camp farthest away we could set up a temporary hospital and treat the injured people here. so we thought immediately about the people that we met coming up. there was a big team trying to go up to camp one when we came
that cannot get off the mountain. suddenly because of the aftershock and immediately after the shock we hear avalanches all around us. you have to understand that it is in the valley. mountains on all sides and big avalanches from all of the mountains. the camp where you are has been described as a bowl. when these avalanches happen there s nothing you can do, right? the problem with the big avalanche that happened yesterday and the reason so many people got injured, at least the doctor s description, is they were trying to outrun the avalanche and you can not. so many people were hit from behind, blown off the mountain, blown in to rocks, hit by debris. tents were flying off. so when the avalanche hit, and i
their family says they were very passionate and died doing exactly what they loved. 61-year-old tom taplin on the left of your screen lived in santa monica california and just wrapped up a documentary about the mt. everest base camp where the avalanche hit. his wife told me he was a passionate photographer, filmmaker, and mountaineer. he was a larger than life individual. people just gravitated to him. a lot of friends because he was just so much fun and such an inspiration to be around. we ve heard similar words about 28-year-old marissa who died at the base camp as well. she was a camp doctor with the seattle-based mountaineering company. they say she was an avid mountain climber who had been working in the everest area for more than a year.