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One year after an avalanche killed 16 Nepalese guides, climbers have returned to the mountain for the 2015 season.


NASA Earth Observatory image (top) by Joshua Stevens using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ASTER GDEM2 data from NASA/MITI and the ASTER Science Team. Additional imagery (bottom) rendered by Gregory Leonard, University of Arizona, based on ASTER GDEM2 and data provided courtesy of Digital Globe and Mark Fahey at the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published April 17, 2015
Data acquired May 3, 2013 - April 26, 2014

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
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