Border region counts cost of Nepal earthquake

A Cumbrian mountaineer who was caught in an avalanche on Mount Everest during the earthquake twelve days ago says he intends to go back next year.

Tim Mosedale was welcomed home from Nepal by his children in Keswick yesterday.

He escaped from the mountain uninjured but three of his team died in disaster.

A family from Selkirk have just returned from a holiday in Nepal, where they experienced the earthquake.

They say they'll raise money for the relief effort and will return to help the tourist industry in the future.

A couple from the Borders who were on holiday in Nepal when the earthquake hit have now returned home to Melrose.

David and Aileen Knox were visiting Kathmandu with their 4-year old daughter Jess. Fiona Marley Paterson reports.

A mountaineering guide from Cumbria has been speaking about the death of three of his team members in the avalanche at Everest base camp.

Tim Mosedale, from Keswick, was leading a group up the mountain when the earthquake struck. They were safe at Camp One but three Nepalese colleagues, including cooks, were at the base camp and perished.

He's now down from the mountain and spoke to us by phone from Nepal.

A couple from Cumbria are home safe and well after being caught up in the earthquake in Nepal.

Lesley and John Connolly, from Crosby on Eden, were in the capital Kathmandu when the tremors struck.

They managed to get home on one of the first flights back to the UK.

The death toll in the disaster has now exceeded six thousand people.

It's almost a week since last Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal.

Re-watch our interview with Sir Chris Bonington and Doug Scott about the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.

Aid worker Denise Prior was caught up in the earthquake in Nepal.

She arrived back in Cumbria yesterday (29 April), and works for the charity Community Action Nepal, based in Hesket Newmarket.

She came into our studio to tell ITV Border about her experiences, and how she's planning to continue to help the relief effort:

A family from Melrose who survived the earthquake in Nepal were amongst the very first to arrive back in the UK.

David Knox, his wife Aileen and four-year-old daughter Jess thought they were going to die in the disaster.

The family arrived back last night from Nepal on the first UK aid flight with 120 people. They landed at a private hangar at Stansted Airport. He's due home tomorrow night.

Mr Knox said his family spent two nights sleeping on the floor of the airport waiting for a flight home before seeking refuge in the British embassy in Kathmandu.

A charity worker from Cumbria has returned home from Nepal after experiencing the devastation caused by Saturday's earthquake.

Denise Prior works with Community Action Nepal and was visiting the country on a medical expedition.

She says she feared for her life, but now believes the priority is to rebuild the country.