Rescuers have recovered the body of another mountain guide after an ice avalanche swept the lower slopes of Mount Everest.<br /><br />The death toll is now at least 13 Officials say three are still missing.<br /><br />All of the victims were Sherpa mountain guides.<br /><br />The avalanche struck a perilous passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and huge chunks of ice – that can break free without warning.<br /><br />It was first major avalanche of this year’s climbing season on Everest, which has been scaled by more than 4,000 climbers.<br /><br />Some 250 mountaineers have died on the mountain, which is on the border between Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet and can be climbed from both sides in a season that is cut short in late May by rainy-season clouds cloaking the Himalayas.
