(Reuters photo: Navesh Chitrakar).
As I already wrote, at the time of the earthquake (noon on April 25) there were several tourist groups “familiar” to us in Kathmandu. Over the past 24 hours, we managed to contact all of them in one way or another. Everyone is alive, no one was hurt. They say that it was primarily the old brick buildings that were destroyed. But new monolithic frame buildings suffered little damage. That is, in Thamel (the tourist quarter of Kathmandu) everything is more or less in order. Of course, the people suffered a lot of fear - they shook quite a lot and more than once. Many, out of harm’s way, decided not to stay indoors at night, but slept in the courtyards. The situation in the mountains is not yet clear - how large are the consequences of avalanches, whether the suspension bridges are intact, whether the trails through the passes have been preserved.