High in the Himalayas, where ice and human ambition have long shared uneasy ground, a glacier gave way on August 26, sending ice, rock, and ruin through Nepal's Trishuli Valley and sealing nearly 900 workers inside the tunnels of six hydropower projects. More than 1,200 people perished and tens of thousands were displaced in what stands as one of the gravest mountain disasters in recent memory. Nine days into the silence, two men — Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan — were pulled from the dark alive, offering a fragile proof that survival is still possible, even as the fate of hundreds more remains
Two workers rescued alive from Nepal hydropower tunnel nine days after glacier collapse
Over 1,200 people killed and tens of thousands displaced by glacier collapse; at least 900 trapped in hydropower tunnels with uncertain survival prospects.