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KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepalese officials closed a section of a popular Himalayan trekking route Sunday, Oct. 19 after rescuers, overwhelmed with last week's snowstorms that killed 38 hikers, had to bring to safety new climbers who set out on the same mountain trails where the blizzards struck.

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