A 14-year-old girl and her mother are among at least 87 Americans unaccounted for after a catastrophic glacier collapse sent floodwaters tearing through the Nepal-China border region, and their family has heard nothing since Wednesday morning. Rashi Shashidharan, an eighth grader, and her 54-year-old mother Rekha were on a Hindu pilgrimage toward Mount Kailash in […] The post Eighty-seven Americans missing in Nepal glacier flood, including 14-year-old girl whose last text was a breakfast plan appeared first on American Almanac .
A 14-year-old girl and her mother are among at least 87 Americans unaccounted for after a catastrophic glacier collapse sent floodwaters tearing through the Nepal-China border region, and their family has heard nothing since Wednesday morning. Rashi Shashidharan, an eighth grader, and her 54-year-old mother Rekha were on a Hindu pilgrimage toward Mount Kailash in Tibet when a massive section of glacier broke loose from a mountainside. The resulting torrent of ice, rock, and water ripped through mountain communities along the river, killing at least 939 people and leaving nearly 4,000 unaccounted for. The last anyone heard from Rekha was a Wednesday morning message to her father: they were planning breakfast and had a noon embassy…Open
The confirmed death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal has surpassed 900 as the number of missing more than doubled to over 4,200, straining the country's rescue efforts and leaving officials and families desperate for answers. Flooding triggered by a glacier collapse near Nepal’s northern border with China’s Tibet region has devastated communities and left […] The post Death toll from Nepal glacier flood climbs past 900 as missing surge to over 4,200 appeared first on American Almanac .
The confirmed death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal has surpassed 900 as the number of missing more than doubled to over 4,200, straining the country's rescue efforts and leaving officials and families desperate for answers. Flooding triggered by a glacier collapse near Nepal’s northern border with China’s Tibet region has devastated communities and left search, rescue, and relief teams racing against time. Nepali authorities reported that 903 bodies have been recovered, and more than 4,200 remain unaccounted for after the disaster struck on Wednesday, with morgues overwhelmed and entire cities wiped out by the deluge. The scale of the catastrophe has shocked even seasoned responders. Ferrin Cole, operations director at…Open
Thousands of people are missing and hundreds are dead after a flash flood in Nepal that struck with little warning earlier this week. Why it matters: The flood is exposing the gaps in warning systems that are designed to watch out for extreme rain and rivers — not for sudden collapses high in the mountains during good weather. - Glacier-driven floods under clear skies — sometimes called "blue-sky floods" — can happen in the U.S. too, especially in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, where sudden releases of glacial water can send floods and debris racing down mountain valleys. - This actually happened at Mount Rainier in Washington state in 2001, when debris flow from a glacier-related hazard caught people off guard during fair…
An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has left at least four climbers dead and six others missing from a 10-person international expedition, and bad weather is slowing the desperate search for survivors. Pakistani rescue teams located four bodies on the mountain Friday after an avalanche struck the expedition during a summit attempt on Broad Peak, […] The post Rescuers recover four bodies on Broad Peak as six climbers remain missing after avalanche appeared first on American Almanac .
An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has left at least four climbers dead and six others missing from a 10-person international expedition, and bad weather is slowing the desperate search for survivors. Pakistani rescue teams located four bodies on the mountain Friday after an avalanche struck the expedition during a summit attempt on Broad Peak, the world's 12th-highest peak at 8,047 meters in the Karakoram range. The expedition was led by Nirmal Purja, the renowned British-Nepali mountaineer known as "Nims Dai," who gained worldwide fame after climbing all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 meters in a record 189 days in 2019. That feat was chronicled in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible." Three of the four…Open
The group caught on one of the world’s highest peaks included the influential British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and an American climber, an alpine organization said.