Search teams have recovered a 13th body from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, a day after an avalanche swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.

Rescuers were digging through piles of snow and ice today for four Sherpa guides buried on Mount Everest when an avalanche swept down the slopes and killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.

IN THE 1960s, Inisheer’s only roads were narrow dirt tracks, the traffic consisted entirely of donkeys, water was drawn from wells, clothes were homespun, everyone spoke Irish — and there, two of my books were written by candlelight.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, has bought Lonely Planet in a deal that values the travel publisher at about £100 million (€143m).