More than a week after flash floods devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region, two survivors were pulled alive from a tunnel network along the Trishuli river — a sliver of light within a catastrophe that has claimed over 1,300 lives. The rescue did not diminish the scale of the disaster, but it altered its emotional landscape: families who had begun to grieve found themselves hoping again. In the ancient arithmetic of disaster, a single life recovered from the earth carries a weight far beyond its number.
Nepal tunnel rescues offer hope as search continues for hundreds trapped
Over 1,300 people killed in flash flooding; hundreds of workers trapped in tunnels; families searching for missing relatives.