Mountain rescue teams in Nepal are searching for scores of missing trekkers after unseasonal blizzards and avalanches killed at least 20 people along the high-altitude Annapurna mountain route, which is popular with backpackers. Army and civilian rescue workers say between 73 and 85 trekkers registered on the trail are still unaccounted for. Not all of these were necessarily trapped by the weather and some may have left the area, rescue workers said. But with so many missing the death toll, which included 11 foreigners and three yak herders, was expected to rise. The snowstorms were brought by the…
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