“Some people are not happy because they lost their jobs because of the avalanche,” said Mr. Shankar, referring to the disaster last year. “Some people worry the earthquake will scare away people.”
“有些人因为雪崩而失去了工作，感到不高兴，”尚卡尔谈到去年发生的灾难事件时表示。“还有些人担心这次的地震会把人吓跑。”
Even hardened climbers admitted to being terrified by the wave of destruction.
就连铁杆登山迷都承认，地震的强大破坏力让他们非常害怕。
“I heard a really big thump and then I knew, O.K., the avalanche is coming,” Mariusz Malkowski, a 42-year-old Polish-American engineer and an experienced climber, said on Monday after finding his way out of base camp and eventually to New Delhi. But he said he was not prepared for what he saw: a wave of snow and ice, accompanied by a tremendous gust of air. “Imagine a tsunami,” he said.
“我听到了一声巨响，然后我意识到，好吧，雪崩来了，”42岁的波兰裔美国工程师、经验丰富的登山者马里乌什·马尔科夫斯基(Mariusz Malkowski)周一在找到撤离大本营的途径并最终抵达新德里后表示。但是他说，自己当时并没有为后来见到的景象做好准备：一波又一波的冰雪，伴随着一股强大的气流。“想象一下海啸的场景，”他说。
“Mountains and glaciers shook all around us,” Sean Wisedale, a South African climber and expedition leader, recounted on his blog. “A massive ice slab sheared and thundered into Base Camp. It lifted rocks and boulders ahead of it, slamming into hundreds of tents in the center of the camp and spilling over onto the Khumbu glacier on the other side.”
“我们周围的山体和冰川都在震动，”南非登山者、探险队队长肖恩·怀斯达勒(Sean Wisedale)在他的博客上写道。“一片巨大的冰块断裂，轰隆隆地砸到了大本营里。它掀起前面的岩石和巨砾，砸入大本营中心的数百顶帐篷，还溅落到了另一侧的昆布冰川。”
Members of his team dived into their tents, and then emerged to a different world. “Base Camp was the site of post Armageddon,” he wrote.
他的团队成员躲进帐篷，再出来的时候见到的是另一个世界。“大本营所在地就是世界末日过后，”他写道。
There seems little chance, however, that successive disasters will seriously dull the luster of Mount Everest among visitors. Some foreign trekkers who had left Everest after the earthquake, or had their plans to visit stymied by the disaster, said in interviews in Katmandu that they hoped to return to the mountain. Others said they had seen enough.
不过，接连发生的灾难似乎不大可能严重影响珠峰对游客的吸引力。在震后离开珠峰或者因为这场灾难而使登山计划受阻的一些外国徒步者在加德满都接受采访时说，他们希望能回到山上。其他一些人则表示已经不必再去。
“Emotionally, I felt like this trip was so much bigger than the actual physical journey,” Rob Besecker, who lives in Chicago, said in an interview. He has muscular dystrophy and heart problems, and said he had trekked to the Everest base camp, and other famous or forbidding parts of the world, to show people that illness should not overshadow their lives. He had already left the base camp when the earthquake struck.
“从感情意义来说，我觉得这次旅行比实际上的身体之旅的意义要大很多，”住在芝加哥的罗伯·贝塞克(Rob Besecker)在采访中说。他患有肌肉萎缩症，心脏也有毛病。他表示自己曾徒步抵达珠峰大本营和世界上其他一些著名景点或难以接近的地方，为的是向世人表明，生活不应该笼罩在疾病的阴影之下。地震发生时，他已经离开了大本营。
“I felt there were so many eyes on me that you just got to do it,” Mr. Besecker said. “So there was a physical battle, and an emotional battle.”
“我感觉有很多双眼睛盯着我，必须要这样做，”贝塞克说。“所以这既是一场身体上的战斗，也是一场情感上的战斗。”
When memories of this year’s trauma subside, mountain enthusiasts will return to Everest with the same zeal as before, according to Jiban Ghimire, the managing director of Shangri-La Nepal Trek, a company in Katmandu that provides support to mountaineering teams.