China warns of major glacier collapse as Tibet landslide death toll approaches 1,000

Nearly 1,000 deaths reported with 261 foreigners from 23 countries missing in the landslide; extensive displacement and casualties across the Himalayan border region.

In the high folds of the Himalayas, where geology and human ambition have long negotiated an uneasy coexistence, a catastrophic landslide has claimed nearly a thousand lives and left 261 foreigners from 23 nations unaccounted for. The disaster, centered on a Tibetan border crossing, has erased infrastructure and community in a single geological moment — and Chinese authorities now warn that destabilized glaciers above the wreckage may deliver a second blow before the first has been fully reckoned with. It is a reminder that in the world's most geologically restless terrain, nature does not pau

China warns of major glacier collapse as Tibet landslide death toll approaches 1,000

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