High in the Himalayas, where ice and human ambition have long coexisted in uneasy proximity, a glacier gave way on Wednesday and sent a wall of destruction across the Nepal-Tibet border that erased villages, swallowed pilgrims, and entombed workers in the tunnels of power plants built to harness the very rivers now turned lethal. With nearly 3,000 people still missing and 682 confirmed dead by Saturday, the disaster stands as both a humanitarian emergency and a reckoning — one the UN's climate chief was quick to name: a warming world, fed by fossil fuels, is making such collapses not exception
Rescuers race to find 3,000 missing after glacial collapse triggers deadly Himalayan floods
At least 682 confirmed dead with nearly 3,000 missing across Nepal and Tibet; 933 hydropower workers unaccounted for; entire villages engulfed; survivors face displacement and loss of livelihoods.