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Nepal vows new rules after worst trekking disaster

By BiNaj Gurubacharya
Published October 21, 2014 12:44pm ET
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Nepal vows new rules after worst trekking disaster
Hospital personnel with the help of the relatives of the avalanche victims, shift the body of a victim onto a stretcher at a morgue at Teaching Hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Nepal was wrapping up rescue operations in its northern mountains Monday, saying all the hikers believed to have been stranded on a trekking route by a series of deadly blizzards are now safe. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) | Niranjan Shrestha

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal on Tuesday said it will introduce new rules, improve weather forecasts and better monitor the movement of trekkers after the Himalayan country’s worst hiking disaster left dozens dead last week.

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