article_snippet.sent: Americans who were on Mount Everest when it was hit by a deadly avalanche have described the moment the wall of snow and ice hit Americans who were on Mount Everest when it was hit by a deadly avalanche camp and the carnage that surrounded Americans who were on Mount Everest when it was hit by a deadly avalanche during the aftermath.
article_snippet.sent: At least 17 climbers, including three Americans, and many sherpas died as a result of the earthquake that has killed 2,500 people across the Himalayas.
article_snippet.sent: his said that the ground shook for a very long time and that avalanches were happening one right after another on the mountain, ' he was forced to zip a dead body into a sleeping bag wrote. '
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 Ashleigh Stumler worked as a medic for Madison Mountaineering.
article_snippet.sent: A third American, Tom Taplin, 61, who owned TET Films & Photography, was making a documentary when the earthquake hit, NBC News reported.
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: Three Americans who were on the mountain at the time were killed .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Three Americans who were on the mountain at the time were among 18 mountaineers and many sherpas who perished .