article_snippet.sent: an avalanche started on Mount Kumori, a 23,000-foot-high mountain just a few miles from Mount Everest, and gathered strength as it tore across the world's highest peak.
article_snippet.sent: Eighteen people died in the avalanche, including four Americans, and 61 were injured, according to Nepal's mountaineering department.
article_snippet.sent: American Google executive Dan Fredinburg, 33, was the first confirmed fatality on the mountain.
article_snippet.sent: New Jersey-born Dr Marisa Eve Girawong, 29, was also killed by an avalanche.
article_snippet.sent: Killed: Three Americans died on the mountain:
article_snippet.sent: Climber Garrett Madison, who runs Seattle-based firm Madison Mountaineering, described how he was leading he up the mountain when he heard the terrifying sound of avalanches. '
article_snippet.sent: our heard an awful noise and heard avalanches coming down either side of the valley,' he said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Eighteen people were killed in the avalanche, including three Americans, and more than 60 were injured .
  