A Himalayan 'Flash Flood' Just Wiped Out Entire Valleys in Nepal
A sudden wall of water slammed the Himalayas with zero warning, and the scale of the devastation is tough to even fathom.
A sudden, monstrous wall of water tore down the Himalayas without any warning, wiping out dozens of towns and leaving mountain valleys utterly isolated. More than 1,100 people are confirmed dead and nearly 4,000 are missing, with dozens of suspension bridges completely obliterated.
Hundreds of workers remain trapped inside flooded hydropower tunnels while rescue teams from India and China deploy drones and throw up makeshift bridges across gorges just to reach places cut off from civilization. Prime Minister Balendra Shah laid it bare in parliament: nobody even has time to grieve yet because an entire chunk of the country's lifeline infrastructure vanished in minutes.
When mountains that stood still for millennia get washed away like sandcastles in an afternoon, mountain safety stops being an environmental theory and becomes an immediate reckoning.
Source: BBC
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