Last year , 102,000 foreigners came to Nepal to take part in trekking and mountaineering , the vast majority of them trekkers . Nepal : Five people are missing after an avalanche near Mount Dhaulagiri , police say . 12 trekkers died in the popular mountain region , near the highest point of a 21-day trek . The dead were two Poles , an Israeli and a Canadian ; two more are buried under snow . Five more trekkers -- four Canadians and an Indian -- died in remote forest district .
Nepal : Five people are missing after an avalanche near Mount Dhaulagiri , police say . 12 trekkers died in the popular mountain region , near the highest point of a 21-day trek . The dead were two Poles , an Israeli and a Canadian ; two more are buried under snow . Five more trekkers -- four Canadians and an Indian -- died in remote forest district .