Alpine Eco Trek said it has not been able to establish contact with 12 Britons who were booked on a tour to Mount Kailash and were in the region when the flash floods struck.<\/p>\n
The company’s travel logs which were shared with the Press Association, with a 13-year-old girl the youngest person missing.<\/p>\n
Four of the firm’s Nepali tour guides are also missing.<\/p>\n
Mount Kailash – a peak in the Himalayas near the border between Nepal and Tibet – is considered the spiritual home of the Hindu god Shiva.<\/p>\n
The journey to the mountain is part of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, a sacred pilgrimage for Hindus. <\/p>\n
The pilgrimage had only recently resumed after being disrupted first by the pandemic and then by tensions between India and China.<\/p>\n
The Trekkers’ Society said nine UK nationals on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash are missing after they crossed the Nepal-Tibet border. Four males aged between 14 and 50, and five females aged 40 to 53 remain missing.<\/p>\n
Himalayan Glacier US had 47 guests on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, with two in the group being British citizens.<\/p>\n
Kailash Journeys reported 27 guests and staff were missing, with two British men in the group. <\/p>\n
Fishtail Tours said one British person on its tour was missing.<\/p>\n
The flood hit early on Wednesday in Rasuwa, just north of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.<\/p>\n
Preliminary information suggested it was caused by an earthquake, but the US Geological Survey said additional analysis indicated “the seismic energy was instead generated by a landslide.”<\/p>\n
It said a magnitude 5.2 seismic event caused by a “glacial collapse and debris flow” occurred near the border at 08:37 local time on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpine Eco Trek said it has not been able to establish contact with 12 Britons who were booked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}