2 Americans killed on Everest

N.J. nurse, Google executive caught in avalanche

Relief efforts intensified in Katmandu on Sunday as Nepal continues to reel from powerful aftershocks and the devastating earthquake that left more than 3,200 dead.

Survivors made their way off Mount Everest on Sunday, as dozens of people who were on the mountain remained missing after the magnitude-7.8 earthquake triggered a massive avalanche.

At least 18 people were killed on the mountain and dozens more were injured.

Two Americans are among those killed: Google executive Daniel Fredinburg, who was part of a team attempting to create a Google street map of the trek to Everest Base Camp, and Marisa Eve Girawong, an emergency room physician’s assistant from Edison Township in New Jersey serving as a base camp doctor for the Seattle-based Madison Mountaineering company.

The avalanche left Garrett Madison, who is the expedition company’s owner, and 14 other climbers stranded at a camp farther up the mountain.

“We are running low on food and fuel, and we have to get down. There’s no path or route through the Khumbu icefall,” Madison said in a satellite phone call posted on the company’s website. “Our only option to get down is by helicopter evacuation.”

The Jagged Globe expedition company said injured climbers were evacuated by helicopter to Katmandu, while those who were not injured began a four-day trek to Lukla, a mountain town with a small airport. Another Jagged Edge team elsewhere in Nepal is missing, the company said.

QUAKE STRIKES NEPAL

The magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck at around noon Saturday.