article_snippet.sent: Tents crushed by snow, belongings strewn across the mountainside and a desperate scramble to find any injured victims: this is the chaotic scene after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake sparked an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing 18 people.
article_snippet.sent: Before and after images show how the wave of snow, ice and rock flattened the usually serene 18,000-foot-altitude base camp on Saturday.
article_snippet.sent: Covered: An image, left, shows Everest Base Camp as it usually looks in April compared to how the same place looked following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
article_snippet.sent: Survivors have recalled how Survivors felt Survivors being dragged by the wind and snow and emerged to find Everest Base Camp destroyed .
article_snippet.sent: Before the storm: The snow-covered scenes are in start contrast to how the base camp (seen in 2013) usually looks at this time of year .
article_snippet.sent: But on Saturday, an avalanche pummeled the campers at the 18,000-foot-altitude base camp, leaving an avalanche covered with snow .
article_snippet.sent: I looked around and saw the tents all torn, crushed and many people injured.
article_snippet.sent: People look over the scene on Saturday after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake triggered the avalanche that flattened parts of the base camp .
article_snippet.sent: Deadly: An image from Sunday shows a tent completely flattened by the avalanche, which left 18 people dead on Saturday .
article_snippet.sent: : Another photograph shows the base camp following the avalanche that flattened parts of the base camp .
article_snippet.sent: : One survivor recalled 'a huge wall of snow' falling on One survivor and how One survivor had to claw One survivor way out to survival .
article_snippet.sent: There were several tents buried by the snow, several blown away.'
article_snippet.sent: Michael Churton, a filmmaker from New York, was with four other colleagues at the base camp when the earthquake hit, and One survivor said that it took about 45 seconds for the avalanche to finish. '
article_snippet.sent: our proceeded up to Camp Two and contacted Base Camp where our heard of the awful destruction.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Photographs taken after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake sparked an avalanche on Mount Everest on Saturday show the campsite buried beneath snow and belongings strewn across Mount Everest .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Survivors recalled harrowing tales of being pummeled by snow and rocks as Survivors prayed for Survivors lives .
  