Chinese state media outlet Jimu News on Sunday reported that roughly 1,000 mountain climbers were pinned down at sites just below base camp on the north face of Mount Everest due to a blizzard.
Jimu said the climbers were at camps located at roughly 4,900 meters (16,076 feet).
Tents have been reported damaged and news of casualties has also been mentioned, though no fatalities have been reported thus far.
Though rescue efforts are underway, they have been hampered by persistent heavy snow and winds that have made rescue roads impassable.
Snowfall has continued since Friday, according to local tour companies that suspended ticket sales to the area late Saturday.
Neighboring Nepal has also been blasted by precipitation in the form of rain, with landslides and flash flooding killing dozens of people across the border.
Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, with its peak measuring 8,848 meters above sea level.
The mountain is also deadly, having claimed the lives of hundreds of climbers since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary first climbed to its summit in 1953.
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Edited by Sean Sinico
