Rajendra Dawadi was teaching at the Tribhuvan Trishuli School when a staff member burst into the classroom, shouting that a major flood was headed their way.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah, 36, rose to power this year on the back of youth anger with graft and mismanagement. His fledgling government now faces a huge test.
After a glacial flood last year, Chinese officials strengthened defenses at a border crossing with Nepal. But last week’s “cascade of hazards” overwhelmed them.
Searching for missing people along a road leading toward Gyirong Port in China on Sunday. On Wednesday a tsunami-like wave of ice, boulders and water tore through the port complex.
The authorities in Nepal and Tibet said that more than 4,400 people were missing since a deadly Himalayan landslide and glacial collapse. Rescuers are searching for survivors.
Only a fraction of the over 4,200 missing in Nepal are turning up among the dead, underscoring a bleak reality: The death toll is likely to keep rising for days to come.
Officers at a mass burial of unidentified victims in Bharatpur, Nepal, on Sunday.
Many religious pilgrims head to the Nepal region to visit Mount Kailash on the border of Nepal and Tibet. Floodwaters ravaged the area, leaving thousands unaccounted for and killing at least 675.
The disclosure offered one of the clearest pictures yet of the disaster on the Chinese side of the border, where authorities have released few details.
The Nepal Army, which is leading rescue efforts, turned to the trapped workers more than a day after the flood, according to army officials, industry groups and private rescuers.
Rescuers evacuating people from the tunnel of a hydropower project in Rasuwa, Nepal, in an image released by Nepal’s Prime Minister Secretariat on Friday.
Homes were heavily damaged and partially buried in thick mud and debris after a catastrophic flash flood in the Devighat area of Nuwakot district in Nepal on Wednesday.
Given the challenges in forecasting and detecting such calamities, researchers advised banning construction on floodplains and marking out clear evacuation routes.
The widened channel of the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal on Thursday after the flash flooding. Most monitoring and early-warning systems for glacial hazards focus on a specific area of risk.
Given the challenges in forecasting and detecting such calamities, researchers advised banning construction on floodplains and marking out clear evacuation routes.
The widened channel of the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal on Thursday after the flash flooding. Most monitoring and early-warning systems for glacial hazards focus on a specific area of risk.
Glaciers and permafrost in the Himalayas are melting faster as temperatures rise, though scientists are still studying the exact causes of this week’s landslide.
A visit near the border with Tibet laid bare the effects of a swollen river’s furious speed. Miles of devastation were left behind in a flash flood that killed more than 300.
Residents waiting to be airlifted by helicopter in the Rasuwa district of Nepal.
Scientists and disaster response researchers said Nepal’s early flood warning system relied on a conventional network of river gauges in this remote region.
Survivors described the terrifying speed and power of the “boulders, sand and thick sludge” that killed hundreds and wiped out villages on the border between Nepal and Tibet.
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