Reuters —

The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonably heavy snow, and a helicopter crashed in deep snowdrifts as it tried to rescue stranded trekkers.

Visited by thousands of trekkers and climbers, the region around Mount Everest has been blanketed by snow since Monda

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