High in the Himalayas, where the ancient ice meets the living world below, a glacier gave way on a Wednesday morning and remade the landscape of grief for thousands of families across Nepal, China, and beyond. A magnitude 5.2 rockfall unleashed a torrent so sudden and total that survivors could only describe it in the language of myth — not a flood, but a tsunami from the mountains. Nearly 600 are confirmed dead, almost 2,500 remain missing, and rescue teams now work against hardened mud, a newly formed lake threatening secondary floods, and the silence of governments that hold information fam
Nepal-China border disaster death toll nears 600 as rescuers race against new flood threats
Nearly 600 people killed, almost 2,500 missing (including 500+ foreigners), thousands evacuated, and over 100 people trapped in a hydropower tunnel in thick mud.