About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a severe snowstorm on Mount Everest in China have reached safety. Rescue teams provided food, medicine, heating, and oxygen to those affected. The scenic area is now temporarily closed due to heavy snowfall

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said during the late hours of Tuesday. Soon after their rescues, about a dozen of the hikers were escorted to a meeting point with the help of local teams carrying food, medicine, heating and oxygen supplies, as per news agency AP.

Earlier on Saturday, a severe storm struck the area, cutting off access to where the hikers were staying in tents at an altitude of more than 4,900 metres.

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