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Years ago I hikes around Annapurna in Nepal. Going through Thorong La (spelling) pass goes up to 5400m and can have snow any time of year. I saw several unprepared hikers who had simple summer gear with them only. The locals hike this route in flip flops sometimes. Fee years after that there was the big earthquake which killed ppl at Mt. Everest and around the same time that Annapurna area got around 2m of snow in 24h. Several ill prepared hikers got lost and died in the snow storm.