forces teams are helping rescue efforts. cnn s pentagon correspondent barbara starr has that part of the story. good morning, barbara. good morning, carol. all of this of course at the request of the government of nepal asking the u.s. for some additional assistance. we are told by the pentagon two special forces aid teams that had already been in nepal for high altitude training will now begin helping search some of the more popular trekking routes in nepal, including the everest base camp route, trying to look for any trekkers that may be stranded injured, or perhaps even killed in the aftermath of all of these earthquakes and aftershocks. so they will help with the nepal army to begin searching these popular trekking routes at these very high altitudes. it s about 2,000 special forces that had actually already been there for some high altitude training. they also have specialized medical training so they will also help with some medical
uncut, what happened. you saw that giant plume. that was snow and that avalanche simply engulfed all of these trekkers who were at base camp. you saw them by the dozens. this is where they converge before they make their big trek up mount everest and you could hear them as they took cover in their tents. you could hear the heavy breathing. they were simply frightened, not knowing what was gonna happen next. we know that to be a german hiker, the voice that you heard mostly on that tape and that video was posted on youtube. cnn, of course is reaching out to the hikers to learn more about their ordeal how they all are doing. we have since learned that 17 hikers at least 17 hikers have been killed from the devastation after that earthquake on mount everest, including three americans, one of which was a google executive. so, let me bring in someone now who has faced avalanches before conrad anchor is a professional mountain climber who has climbed peaks in nepal. so when you see and hear t
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kind of video that we came across there on youtube what comes to mind for you? immediately, it was my own experience in 99 when a large block of ice many miles above us released and then came down. so in the instance of this avalanche, there was a hanging glacier, so there s a glacier with a big cliff below it between pimori and lanetrain and when that earthquake triggered that many tons of ice came down accelerated over a vertical cliff and then hit the slopes below it. so it picked up along the way, the wind blast that we saw in that video. wow. you know, when we look at this video again, you know on base camp and you can describe better than anyone what it is like. this is the area where dozens of trekkers in their camps, they they are there getting their bodies acclimated before they make their big ascensions up in this case mount everest.
tonight after a traumatizing day. we have seen history crumble in front of our eyes and mount everest itself was shaken by the disaster. the earthquake met to the destruction of several very historic world heritages sites. there was tragedy at base camp where eight trekkers have been pulled from an avalanche dead. there were avalanches at mount everest. and kathmandu, the heavily populated capital of the country has experienced devastation as well. more than 1,000 people have been killed. i watched bodies being pulled from the ruins of a very historic temple complex in the south of the city this afternoon. i was there taking photographs as the earthquake began. it was extremely violent and