The thing about the Everest deaths, in my view, yes they are a tragedy, but people going into that excursion are fully cognizant that things like this can happen, so its sorta like "Well, you knew that there is at least the potential things like this can happen, so it sucks but at the same time, I'm not going to be losing sleep over it".
The deaths across the rest of the region, the destruction of all the temples and the historically relevant structures in the region, and the deaths of all the poverty stricken citizens of Nepal are a little more important/tragic, yet probably won't get as much coverage as the Google exec who died in the avalanche on Everest.
Not saying its not a tragedy, of course it is. Just, they knew the risks that were involved. People still die on the excursion to the mountaintop as well on the regs, and end up being left there because its too expensive/difficult/dangerous to get them back down.
