article_snippet.sent: At least 17 people who were on Mount Everest at the time have died while others are still unaccounted for.
article_snippet.sent: Among mountaineers thought to have died in the disaster is 33-year-old Google executive and a former medical student doctor offering care at the site while a filmmaker recording a documentary at the base camp was also killed.
article_snippet.sent: American Google executive Dan Fredinburg was the first confirmed fatality on the mountain yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Marisa Eve Girawong, 29, was also killed when ice and rock crushed the 18,000-foot-altitude base camp where she worked as a medic for Madison Mountaineering.
article_snippet.sent: It is the worst natural disaster Nepal has seen in 81 years, and the highest death toll ever recorded on Everest.
article_snippet.sent: Before now, the mountain's deadliest year was 2014, when 16 people died in one day.
highlights_snippet.sent: Another survivor said avalanche was 'something out of a Hollywood movie'
  At least 17 people who were on Mount Everest at the time have died .