At about 4:45 last Saturday morning, September 22, a huge slab avalanche, caused by a massive serac on a high ridge above Camp 3 that broke loose, sweeping down the upper slopes of 26,758-foot (8,156- meter) Manaslu in Nepal. At least 15 climbers at the camp high on the mountain were killed by the slide as they slept.
...Source: http://climbing.about.com/b/2012/09/27/avalanche-on-manaslu-kills-at-least-15-climbers.htm
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