'I couldn’t believe how violently the road was shaking': Chinese tourists recount horrors of Nepal earthquake
Visitors caught in landslides and recall roads shaking and cracking as the quake struck
Tourists from China have been recounting their ordeals after returning from Nepal after the deadly earthquake on Saturday, state media reported.
Three men from northern Shanxi province were at Everest base camp when it was struck by an avalanche caused by the quake, the Qianjiang Evening News said.
One of the men, Shi Lei, was quoted as saying that he looked up and saw the camp had disappeared, with tent cloths and people scattered on the ground.
Shi said he did not sleep that night as he and more than a dozen injured sat waiting for a helicopter to pick them up at dawn.
One Chinese woman told the newspaper she was trekking in the Himalayas near the Rongbuk Glacier when the quake struck.
Ji Ran was quoted as saying that she was covered in mud and snow pouring down a hillside and that other tourists in her group caught in the landslide looked like clay models.