Nepal earthquake: Four South A

Nepal earthquake: Four South Africans trapped on Nepal mountain pass

Four South Africans are stuck on Langtang Pass, while Gift of the Givers is making arrangements to rescue another South African couple.

Nepal earthquake: Four South A

Disaster rescue NPO, Gift of the Givers confirmed that four South Africans are trapped on Langtang Pass, north of Kathmandu, reported News 24 on Thursday.

The rescue organisation sent a search and rescue team to Nepal earlier this week following a  7.9 magnitude earthquake last Saturday.

The death toll is nearing 5,000 and thousands more have been displaced.

No information is available on the identities of the two South African couples. An eNCA reporter in Nepal, Malungelo Booi, said that the South Africans are stuck with 20 other people on the mountain pass.

Gift of the Givers is today making arrangements for a private chartered helicopter to rescue Mike Sherman and Kate Ahrends, a South African couple stranded in Langtang Pass, reported Eyewitness News.

Gift of the Givers Doctor Qasim Bhorat told the publication that the pair is not seriously injured, but the evacuation process will be extremely difficult.

Another South African couple, Shane Matthews and Elsje Bezuidenhout, who were in the north-eastern parts of Nepal when the quake struck, are, according to News24, “shaken but safe”. They are currently in Lukla with hundreds of other tourists all wanting to get home.

Top photo: An aerial view of Mount Everest (C) and The Himalayan mountain range, some 140kms (87 miles) north-east of Kathmandu. Photo by Prakash Mathemba/AFP/Getty Images