Rescue workers are digging through rubble in a desperate search for survivors after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck in Nepal over the weekend. The quake collapsed houses and triggered landslides and avalanches, including one that swept through the base camp for the approach to Mt. Everest.
A Nepalese man cries after rescue workers found his mother's body amid earthquake debris in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal. (Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press)
Damaged roads are seen after an earthquake on the outskirts of Kathmandu. International aid groups and governments intensified efforts to get rescuers and supplies into earthquake-hit Nepal. (Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images)
Rescuers use a makeshift stretcher to carry an injured person after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake flattened parts of Everest Base Camp. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Rescue workers recover a woman's body from debris following Saturday's earthquake in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu. (Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press)
India's National Disaster Response Force personnel look for survivors in a building, in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Manish Swarup/The Associated Press)
People cremate the bodies of the victims of an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Rescuers dug with their bare hands and bodies piled up in Nepal on Sunday after the earthquake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
People gather at Basantapur Durbar Square, damaged in Saturday's earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Bernat Armangue/The Associated Press)
Indian residents rest and sleep in a football field in Siliguri after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images)
People search for family members trapped inside collapsed houses a day after an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
Family members break down during the cremation of earthquake victims in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal.(Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press)