Nine days after catastrophic floods swallowed Nepal's Trishuli River valley, rescuers drew one man alive from a tunnel stretching four kilometers beneath a hydropower plant — the first soul recovered from a darkness that still holds 42 others. The disaster, which killed more than 1,200 people across the Himalayan nation and trapped hundreds of workers from multiple countries, reminds us how swiftly the forces of nature can reduce human ambition to a question of survival. In the space between the voices heard echoing from deeper in the tunnel and the medical teams waiting at the surface, an ent
First rescue at Nepal power plant as voices heard from trapped workers
Hundreds of workers trapped in multiple hydropower plants; over 1,200 people killed across Nepal from the floods and landslides; workers from China, South Korea, and India among those missing.