
**FILE** The last light of the day sets on Mount Everest on Oct. 27, 2011, as it rises behind Mount Nuptse as seen from Tengboche, in the Himalaya's Khumbu region in Nepal. (Associated Press)

Bodies of climbers killed in an avalanche at Mount Manaslu lie covered with numbers at the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sept. 24, 2012. The avalanche killed at least nine mountaineers and injured others. (Associated Press)

Bodies of climbers killed in an avalanche at Mount Manaslu lie covered with numbers at the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sept. 24, 2012. The avalanche killed at least nine mountaineers and injured others. (Associated Press)

A mountain climber (center) injured in an avalanche is rescued at the base camp on Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. The avalanche swept away climbers on a Himalayan peak and left at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said. (AP Photo/Simrik Air)

** FILE ** A small group of Nepal Youth Front, the student organization of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), hold their flags and shout slogans during a protest against the hike of fuel prices in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. The state-owned Nepal Oil Corp. Sunday announced the rise in prices, which came into effect Monday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

** FILE ** A small group of Nepal Youth Front, the student organization of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), hold their flags and shout slogans during a protest against the hike of fuel prices in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. The state-owned Nepal Oil Corp. Sunday announced the rise in prices, which came into effect Monday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Govinda Prasad Mainali, with his wife Radha (right), waves upon his arrival at his home in Katmandu, Nepal, on June 16. Mainali, 45, spent 15 years in a Japanese jail for the murder of a Japanese woman in 1997. He was freed by the Tokyo High Court based on new DNA testing that cleared him. (Associated Press)

Govinda Prasad Mainali, with his wife Radha (right), waves upon his arrival at his home in Katmandu, Nepal, on June 16. Mainali, 45, spent 15 years in a Japanese jail for the murder of a Japanese woman in 1997. He was freed by the Tokyo High Court based on new DNA testing that cleared him. (Associated Press)

**FILE** The last light of the day sets on Mount Everest on Oct. 27, 2011, as it rises behind Mount Nuptse as seen from Tengboche, in the Himalaya's Khumbu region in Nepal. (Associated Press)