Thomas Ely Taplin, 61, died on April 25, 2015 at Mount Everest Base Camp in an avalanche triggered by Nepal’s Gorkha earthquake. He was filming a documentary about the history of Everest Base Camp.

At this writing, the death toll from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 is estimated at 3,800, and observers fear it will continue to grow. Among those confirmed dead is Tom ...

Local filmmaker John “Woody” Woodruff and Pemba Sherpa, who owns Sherpa Painting, launched The Sherpa Foundation and are providing relief for Nepal’s Khumbu region, which has been devastated by the ...

Taplin, Theodore Day Sept. 12, 1954 – Aug. 10, 2020 Ted Taplin died of natural causes at his home in Mill Valley, CA. Born in Denver, CO he was the son of Beatrice Taplin and the late Thomas E. Taplin ...

Friends and family on Sunday mourned the Santa Monica-based filmmaker who was among the thousands killed in the massive earthquake that struck Nepal. Tom Taplin, 61, was filming a documentary about ...

Tom Taplin loved Santa Monica. It's where he lived with his wife, spent time with friends and ran his filmmaking business. The massive earthquake that rocked Nepal over the weekend kept him from ...

News reports say that Tom Taplin was making a documentary about the Mount Everest base camp when the devastating earthquake triggered the avalanche that took his life. By Abid Rahman A Denver-born, ...

As the first group of survivors from Saturday’s earthquake-triggered avalanche on Mount Everest were flown to Nepal's capital, the U.S. State Department confirmed that four Americans were among those ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The devastation in Nepal is hitting close to home for some in the Bay Area. Among the thousands dead, including a Google executive from San Francisco. The State Department has ...

DENVER — A man making a documentary about the Mount Everest base camp was among those killed when an avalanche hit the mountain Saturday. The avalanche stemmed from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that ...

Local filmmaker John “Woody” Woodruff and Pemba Sherpa, who owns Sherpa Painting, launched The Sherpa Foundation and are providing relief for Nepal’s Khumbu region, which has been devastated by the ...