In the ancient folds of the Himalayas, where ice and stone have long governed the terms of human habitation, a glacier's collapse in late August sent floodwaters through villages along the China-Nepal border, killing more than 600 people and leaving 2,500 unaccounted for. The catastrophe arrived not as an anomaly but as a warning embedded in a landscape that three nations — China, India, and Nepal — are reshaping at extraordinary speed, driven by ambitions for energy, security, and regional dominance. What the disaster has made undeniable is the deepening tension between the pace of human cons
Himalayan nations race to build as natural disaster risks surge
More than 600 people killed and approximately 2,500 missing on both sides of the China-Nepal border from a glacier-triggered flood and landslide.