Australian officials are trying to confirm reports a citizen is among 19 people killed at Mount Everest's base camp in an earthquake-triggered avalanche.
"The Australian embassy in Kathmandu is urgently seeking to confirm these reports," Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told ABC radio on Monday.
Temba Tsheri, a sherpa from the Dreamers' Destination Treks and Expeditions, says an Australian was part of his group on the mountain.
"I have lost four team members in the avalanche - two Nepalis, one Chinese and Australian," he said on Sunday.
A DFAT crisis response team has been deployed to Nepal to help establish the welfare of Australians unaccounted for.
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