About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.

A severe snowstorm on Mount Everest 's eastern face during China's Golden Week holiday resulted in one death and left over 200 trekkers stranded.

At least one hiker died and hundreds were stranded on the mountain's eastern slopes when a shock blizzard hit over the weekend.