Good Morning,
Yesterday I was talking to two of the Army guys who have been running a mountain school in the Bugs and camping over in East Creek.
They said that about 3 or 4 days ago they watched a massive avalanche started by rockfall somewhere off of the South Howser Tower or Minaret ( they were not totally sure) into the icefall between and below the South Tower and the Pigeon Howser col . It started a large combined ice and rock avalanche which stopped about 15m. short of the tents at the normal East Ck. campsite.
I have not been over there recently to see the evidence, but one of our summer guides has a fuzzy photo of it , so we were able to confirm the information, but unfortunately the photo is not good enough to post on the site.
The army camp was further away and they were not threatened, but some of the other climber's tents were almost nailed by the slide.
Cheers, Dave Cochrane
Mountain Guide.