Nepal Annapurna Climbing disaster

Mensa

Mons Mensa, the Table Mountain

At least 39 climbers died on a key Nepali hiking route after it was hit by major snowstorms and avalanches earlier this week, officials say. Helicopters are helping rescuers high in the Himalayas as they search on for missing trekkers, with fears that more bodies lie beneath the snow. A total of 289 people have been rescued from the mountain ranges in what is Nepal's worst-ever trekking disaster. BBC; October 18. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29672358

News of this unfortunate event comes to us in the shadow of  the solar eclipse of October 24. A chart for the  New Moon eclipse at Annapurna is shown here. On the Ascendant [26vi] is the star Alkaid [27vi]. Eta (η) Ursa Major, Alkaid also called Benetnash is a brilliant white star on the tail of the Great Bear [1].

Elsbeth Ebertin  gives the following astrological influences of the star Alkaid:

The last star in the Great Bear Benetnash (Alkaid) means 'hired mourners'. If the influence of this star is exercised, an influence of a Mars-Uranus-Saturn nature is present. Experience has shown that many human lives are to be mourned. Reinhold Ebertin made a survey of this fixed star covering centuries when associated with transits of the major planets over this degree. The results have been recorded in the 40th yearbook for Cosmobiological Research 1969. In accordance with adopted belief of ancient times, this fixed star is supposed to be bound up with the realm of the dead and is therefore associated with death and mourning. In an important position in a mundane map, Benetnash will claim human lives in calamities such as mine accidents, collapse of houses and bridges, mountain slides, earth tremors and catastrophes caused by weather. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, no.46, p.57, under the name Benetnash]

The IC [25sa36] is conjunct  Mars [28sa] and the star alpha Mensa [25sa30] in the constellation Mensa [2] – the mountain.

Mensa was created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille out of dim Southern Hemisphere stars in honor of Table Mountain a South African mountain. Although the stars of Mensa do not feature in any ancient mythology, the mountain it is named after has a rich mythology. Called "Tafelberg" in Dutch and German, the mesa has two neighboring mountains called "Devil's Peak" and "Lion's Head". Table Mountain features in the mythology of the Cape of Good Hope, notorious for its storms—the explorer Bartolomeu Dias saw the mesa as a mythical anvil for storms. [3]

[1] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Alkaid.html

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Mensa.htm

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_(constellation)#Stars