Mt. Everest is experiencing negative effects of climate change and plastics pollution, according to recent research. Credit: Papa Lima Whiskey 2 /CC BY-SA 2.0Climate change and plastics pollution, among other negative factors, are affecting the highest point on Earth, Mt. Everest, in increasingly worrying ways, according to recent research.New findings from the most recent, comprehensive scientific…
good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here s what s happening right now. new this morning a desperate search is on for three missing guides after the deadliest accident ever on mt. everest. at least 13 sherpas were killed after an ice avalanche and now we re getting a clearer idea what happened as disaster struck. more from nbc s chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. reporter: there was a time when bodies were left on everest. helicopter is landing. need more medical help. reporter: dozens of climbers voen toured up to the avalanche zone at 19,000 feet to search for victims, all sherpas from nepal. helicopters landed precariously on ledges of ice and hovered dropping long lines to hoist out the injured and dead. rescue workers straddled cables
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who are still missing. this is an ethnic group of people who live in the him lay yas, they are guides and they were preparing the route to the summit for climbers. three people are seriously wound ed let s bring in ron rad live from montana. you have summited with one of the guides who has died. you have survived an avalanche. what was your reaction when you first heard about this? it was a pit in my stomach. it s going up through the ice ball is the single most dangerous stretch. the sherpas will go through that ice ball probably four times so