article_snippet.sent: at least 17 people scrambled to help the injured, digging at least 17 people out of the snow and turning dining tents into makeshift field hospitals.
article_snippet.sent: Climbers worked in shifts through the night, nursing the injured as Climbers waited for the weather conditions to improve to allow helicopters in.
article_snippet.sent: The airlifts of those with the most severe injuries began Sunday morning after the weather cleared.
article_snippet.sent: Pederson said that most of the injured people at the base camp had been airlifted out by Sunday afternoon.
highlights_snippet.sent: Helicopters begin airlifting injured people from the base camp in Nepal .
  