A group of injured sherpas has returned to Kathmandu, bearing the scars of earthquake-triggered avalanches around Mount Everest.<br /><br /> The men know the Himalayas better than anyone, yet their haunted and bruised faces bear witness to the horror of what they have experienced.<br /><br /> For anxious relatives waiting in Nepal’s capital, relief at their return is overwhelming.<br /><br /> “The tents everywhere were blown away,” one of the sherpas said. <br /><br /> “There were none left at all. We are not sure how many victims there were.”<br /><br /> Also battered and bruised, but a fellow survivor, US documentary filmmaker Michael Churton made it back from base camp.<br /><br /> “It was like 4,000 feet of snow just kind of coming and there was nowhere to run,” he said. <br /><br /> “So I told everybody to get down and then put my hands over my head and just buried myself as much as I could. And basically snow hit. It was about 45 seconds or a minute for it to go by.<br /><br /> “Everything was gone. All our tents were gone and then people were pushed. The g
