Nepal flood death toll hits 579 as rescuers race to find 2,500+ missing

Nearly 600 people confirmed dead with over 2,500 missing across Nepal and China; approximately 90,000 people impacted; hundreds of foreign nationals including pilgrims and trekkers unaccounted for.

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, the ancient ice of the Himalayas gave way along the Nepal-China border, sending a wall of dark water and debris through valleys that have long been crossroads of pilgrimage, commerce, and human passage. Nearly 600 people are confirmed dead, more than 2,500 remain missing, and roughly 90,000 lives have been touched by a disaster that scientists say is not an aberration but a harbinger. The warming of the Hindu Kush Himalayan glaciers has made the mountains themselves unstable, and what was once considered catastrophic is now, in the words of those who

Nepal flood death toll hits 579 as rescuers race to find 2,500+ missing

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