You might say it was a low point during one of the high points of Peter Hansen's life.
He was on the return leg of a three-week trek to Mount Everest Base Camp on April 18 when he received word of an icy avalanche that claimed the lives of 16 Sherpas, native Himalayan mountaineers and guides who live on the borders of Nepal and Tibet. It happened at the notoriously dangerous Khumbu Icefall, not far above base camp where he had recently mingled with fellow mountaineers.
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