On a Wednesday morning in the remote Himalayas, a flash flood near the Tibet border swallowed nearly 400 lives and left some 1,400 people unaccounted for — among them 39 Australians who had journeyed to Nepal on pilgrimage, drawn by one of humanity's oldest impulses: the search for something sacred. Families in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane now wait in a particular kind of silence, the kind that follows when the world a person left behind is no longer the world they can return to. The mountains that called these pilgrims forward have become the very terrain that makes finding them so difficu
39 Australians missing after Nepal flash floods; families await news
39 Australians missing; nearly 400 deaths confirmed with approximately 1,400 people unaccounted for across the region.