A 26-year-old Nepalese guide died and two Swiss climbers were injured when an avalanche hit a Himalayan peak in eastern Nepal on Monday, police said. They were attempting a summit of the 6,812-metre (22,349-foot) Ama Dablam peak in the Everest region when the avalanche struck early Monday, less than a fortnight after a German and a US climber died on the same mountain in separate incidents.
"A helicopter was deployed to rescue the two climbers and they have been brought to Kathmandu," said police official Khagendra Bahadur Khadka. The 42-year-old man broke his back while the 35-year-old woman suffered minor injuries, Khadka told AFP. Last week, a German climber lost consciousness and died after summiting the peak, while a US climber fell to his death a week earlier.
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