that s leaving hundreds of trekkers injured and stranded. nepal s army is doing what it can to help. our reporter reporter: at the helipad survivors wait for rescue. a harrowing journey just to get here. i don t think i want to go back to the mountains for the next couple years or so. thattraumatized. yes, that intense. they have been trekking in nepal. when the earthquake and avalanche devastated the region. the army found them taking shelter in the only standing building in the region. you see entire villages, you saw the previous day, and covered in snow. how fast everything went. you know this entire place is a graveyard. reporter: the leg was crushed. the neighbor had to carry her down. it took her more than a day. nine months pregnant. she has lost everything. she had to walk for hours. she is due any moment.
medicines. a lot have been camping in tents, on a football field, many have been sleeping outside on the streets now. what we are hearing there is are long lines of people, waiting to get out of kathmandu. people are frying to return home to their villages. and there are a couple of reasons for that. one is there is a high amount of frustration in kathmandu because people are angry, desperate. frustrated. simply aren t getting enough relief supplies. we do know there has been a massive international effort. aid organizations have been sending relief into nepal. hasn t been able to be distributed at the moment. there is a huge backlog at the airport, in kathmandu, relief supplies aren t getting out to people fast as they should.
kathmandu region and that further destablized the rocky slopes. want to show you the footage out of central nepal. just kind of highlights how difficult it is to get from one remote village to another. that is a roadway or what used to be a roadway. and clearly a landslide of rock and debris swiping, sweeping across the road making it virtually impassible. that s not the only concern. some of the villages within that path of these landslides looking like this, nearly completely decimated. you can just imagine as time unfolds, we are going to see the full breadth of how serious this particular situation was. it is the small remote villages now that we are starting to get word on how much destruction and, unfortunately, how many fatalities and injuries occurred out of this particular earth quake. i want to talk about the weather. making the situation a little bit, worse across the area that we have had reports. talking to the producers, on the ground, in kathmandu, that it
pain, frustration in kathmandu. along with that come moments of hope. as the the desperate search to locate more survivors pushes on. on sanjay gupta has more. reporter: we know the official death toll here in nepal went up by at least one to day. neighbors watched from nearby windows. still clinging to hope. after all, this 4-month-old baby was rescued after more than 22 hours under the rubble. alive with no apparent injuries. this man, was buried for up to 80 hours. rescue workers administered oxygen and iv drip while they spent ten hours digging him out. there is hope. everywhere you look. and there are reminders of the people who once lived and breathed in this tiny village. a child once happily sipping on their bottle or seeking comfort with the teddy bear pillow. a notebook. pictures. a family. a pair of shoes. they were carpenters, mechanics,
an 18-year-old has been pulled from the rubble of the building in nepal some five days after that massive earthquake. the man says when the quake hit he hid behind a motorcycle which kept him from being crushed. the death toll from the earthquake is more than 5,400 with at least 11,000 injured. more now from our dr. sanjay gupta reporting from kathmandu on the desperate ongoing search for survivors. reporter: we know the official death toll here in nepal went up by at least one to day. neighbors watched from nearby windows. still clinging to hope. after all, this 4-month-old baby was rescued after more than 22 hours under the rubble. alive with no apparent injuries. this man, was buried for up to 80 hours. rescue workers administered oxygen and iv drip while they spent ten hours digging him out. there is hope. everywhere you look. and there are reminders of the people who once lived and breathed in this tiny village.