Californian Survives Avalanche That Kills at Least Nine in Nepal
VIDEO: Early-morning avalanche wipes out hikers sleeping in
tents at a camp on Mount WATCH Deadly Nepal Avalanche: Rescuers
Search for Missing  When a massive avalanche swept over a camp
of sleeping mountain climbers on one of the highest peaks in the
world, extreme skier Glen Plake of California was one of the
lucky ones.  At least nine people were killed in the avalanche
and another six are missing, swept away and buried under tons of
snow and ice on Sunday. Ten climbers survived, but many of them
were injured.  Plake was on Nepal's Mount Manaslu, the world's
eighth tallest peak, when the avalanche struck about 4 a.m. It
roared through a group of tents at Camp 3 where about two dozens
climbers were sleeping.  "We won the lottery with this one,"
Plake's father, James Plake, told ABC News. "Glen does this kind
of stuff all the time so we are always worried, but he called us
instantly with this one, called Kimberly [wife], and said
'whatever the