Nepal mountain rescue mission finishes

Nepal is ending rescue operations in its northern mountains today, saying all the hikers believed to have been stranded on a trekking route by a series of deadly blizzards are now safe.

At least 38 people, including trekkers from Canada, India, Israel, Slovakia, Poland and Japan, died in the blizzards and avalanches which swept the Himalayas last week, battering the popular Annapurna trekking circuit.