A week after floodwaters reshaped the Nepal-Tibet borderlands and claimed 1,300 lives, a team of tunnelling specialists accomplished what many considered impossible: they found a buried entrance no map could locate, carved a passage through boulders and mud, and brought two living men back into the light. The rescue of Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan from the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station is less a story of technology than of human persistence against a landscape that had ceased to resemble itself. Yet the mountain still holds dozens more, and the work of listening for voices in the dark cont
Nepal tunnel rescue: 'Layer upon layer of miracles' in hydropower station operation
A massive flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border has killed 1,300 people; dozens remain trapped inside the hydropower tunnel with two survivors successfully rescued.