• Mountaineers and Nepalese Sherpa guides evacuated from Everest Base Camp sit inside another rescue chopper to be flown to Lukla, in Pheriche, Nepal, Sunday. Mountaineers, guides and porters streamed from the camp on Sunday after it was hit by a deadly earthquake-triggered avalanche that obliterated parts of the rocky village of nylon tents. Dozens of people are missing and meanwhile scores of climbers are stuck above 20,000 feet, unable to get down the mountain. | AP
    Mountaineers and Nepalese Sherpa guides evacuated from Everest Base Camp sit inside another rescue chopper to be flown to Lukla, in Pheriche, Nepal, Sunday. Mountaineers, guides and porters streamed from the camp on Sunday after it was hit by a deadly earthquake-triggered avalanche that obliterated parts of the rocky village of nylon tents. Dozens of people are missing and meanwhile scores of climbers are stuck above 20,000 feet, unable to get down the mountain. | AP

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MUMBAI – Ankur Bahl, a New Delhi shipping industry specialist, was ascending Mount Everest as part of a quest to climb the world’s tallest peaks when a devastating earthquake in Nepal stranded him about 21,000 feet above sea level.

Now Bahl, 54, is stuck at Camp 2, about halfway up the mountain, after the path down was blocked following avalanches, according to his wife Sangeeta, who’s trying to arrange for a helicopter evacuation. About 120 other climbers are either in Camp 1 or Camp 2 and can’t get back to base camp, she said.

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