In the shadow of the Himalayas, Nepal paused on the thirteenth day of its traditional mourning cycle to honor more than a thousand lives erased when a glacier gave way and sent walls of ice, rock, and water through a valley that straddled two nations. The disaster, still unfinished in its accounting, has left over five thousand people unaccounted for — a number that speaks not only to the scale of physical destruction but to the fragility of human settlement at the edge of a warming world. Even as flags descended to half mast, rescue teams chose presence over ceremony, pressing into flooded tu
Nepal marks final day of mourning for 1,287 flood victims as rescue efforts intensify
At least 1,287 people confirmed dead, over 5,000 missing, with hundreds of hydropower workers unaccounted for in tunnels and buried structures across the disaster zone.