A TEACHER from Petersfield says it feels "surreal" to be safely back at home just a week after being at the Mount Everest base camp which was hit by an earthquake-sparked avalanche.

The head of PE?at The Petersfield School, David Alvarez, was at the site just seven days before it was smashed flat by a wall of snow unleashed by the worst earthquake in Nepal for 81 years.

The day after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake, all of the dead and injured found on the mountain were in and around base camp.

David was on a fundraising trip to the highest mountain in the world at 8,848m, luckily returning a week before the destructive 'quake struck....

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