How the autumn climbing season turned deadly in the Himalayas

Unpredictable, intense and longer monsoons are encroaching into autumn, turning it into a deadly season.

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But that seems to be changing.

The monsoon now stretches into autumn, the traditional season for mountain tourism, meteorologists say, making weather more unpredictable.

For the past decade, they have recorded at least one episode of extreme rainfall almost every year during the tail end of this longer monsoon - and in the mountains it is becoming quite dangerous.

Last weekend, a shock blizzard stranded hundreds of tourists near the eastern face of Everest for days in freezing temperatures at an altitude of more than 4,900m (16,000ft).