Nine days after a glacier collapse unleashed catastrophic floods across Nepal and Tibet, two workers were pulled alive from a hydropower tunnel — a fragile but luminous sign that survival is still possible amid one of the region's most devastating disasters in recent memory. The August 26 event has claimed at least 1,259 lives, left more than 5,000 missing, and trapped hundreds of workers inside the tunnels of twelve hydropower projects. In the vast arithmetic of loss, the rescue of Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan does not balance the ledger, but it reminds us that hope, like water, finds its wa
Two workers rescued from Nepal hydropower tunnel 9 days after devastating floods
Two workers rescued after 9 days trapped in tunnel; one paralyzed from the waist down. At least 1,259 people killed in Nepal and Tibet floods with over 5,000 missing.