Photo taken on Oct. 14, 2013 shows buildings covered by heavy snow in Tingri County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. A total of 78 tourists were stranded on Monday in heavy snow at the base camp of Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest), including 13 foreigners, local authorities said. As of 5 p.m., another eight people had left Rongbuk, the world's highest monastery at an altitude of 5,100 meters, for the nearby county seat of Tingri, said a spokesman with the tourism bureau of Xigaze prefecture. (Xinhua) |