A massive overnight rock fall has buried the entrance to one of Cornwall's most beloved landmarks, a sea cave featured in the BBC's Poldark series, and locals say the loss is permanent. Hundreds of tons of rock and debris crashed down onto Holywell Cave on Holywell Bay near Newquay, Cornwall, sometime during the night of […] The post Cornwall's famed Poldark cave sealed permanently after massive cliff collapse appeared first on American Almanac .
A massive overnight rock fall has buried the entrance to one of Cornwall's most beloved landmarks, a sea cave featured in the BBC's Poldark series, and locals say the loss is permanent. Hundreds of tons of rock and debris crashed down onto Holywell Cave on Holywell Bay near Newquay, Cornwall, sometime during the night of Sunday, August 30, sealing off a site that had drawn pilgrims, tourists, and film crews for centuries. No injuries were reported, but the Newquay Coastguard search and rescue team warned the surrounding cliff face remains unstable and urged the public to stay away. The collapse wiped out access to a cave also known as St Cuthbert's Cave, a low-tide destination famous for its vividly colored interior rock and a freshwater…Open
Deepak and Madhu Ahuja of Texas disappeared during catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border just hours after completing a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, and their two daughters say they still have no answers. Ashna and Shreya Ahuja have spent days gathered with relatives at a family member's home, working the phones to two U.S. […] The post Texas couple vanishes in Nepal flood as 90 Americans remain unaccounted for appeared first on American Almanac .
Deepak and Madhu Ahuja of Texas disappeared during catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border just hours after completing a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, and their two daughters say they still have no answers. Ashna and Shreya Ahuja have spent days gathered with relatives at a family member's home, working the phones to two U.S. embassies and contacts on the ground in one of the most remote disaster zones on Earth. Their parents had just finished the sacred trek and were heading toward the Nepal-Tibet border crossing with their tour group on August 26 when flash floods tore through the Himalayan region, obliterating communities, roads, and bridges with a wall of water, ice, rock, and debris. By Friday morning,…Open
A 67-year-old Northern Virginia man is among as many as 90 Americans unaccounted for after flash floods destroyed a Himalayan border checkpoint, and his family says they have heard almost nothing from the governments involved. Anil Goel, a retired World Bank employee and seasoned trekker, had his visa approved at the Rasuwagadhi immigration checkpoint on […] The post Virginia family desperate for answers after Nepal border floods leave dozens of Americans missing appeared first on American Almanac .
A 67-year-old Northern Virginia man is among as many as 90 Americans unaccounted for after flash floods destroyed a Himalayan border checkpoint, and his family says they have heard almost nothing from the governments involved. Anil Goel, a retired World Bank employee and seasoned trekker, had his visa approved at the Rasuwagadhi immigration checkpoint on Nepal's border with Tibet at 8:35 a.m. local time on August 26, 2026. Roughly 35 minutes later, the collapse of a distant rock ledge and the massive glacier it supported sent a wall of floodwater and mud through the valley, CBS News reported . Every building at the checkpoint was swept away or buried. Goel had sent a photo to his family from the border crossing just minutes before the…Open
Members from a Tennessee meditation center are part of a pilgrimage group missing following the deadly flood near the border between Nepal and China. CNN’s Sara Sidner reports.
Locals in Santiago de Compostela say rowdy crowds of pilgrims have turned one of Christianity's oldest sacred routes into something closer to a street festival, and the city's response so far amounts to a polite suggestion to keep it down. A viral video recently posted online showed young Spanish pilgrims dancing and chanting on the […] The post Residents say Spain's ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrimage is devolving into a party trail appeared first on American Almanac .
Locals in Santiago de Compostela say rowdy crowds of pilgrims have turned one of Christianity's oldest sacred routes into something closer to a street festival, and the city's response so far amounts to a polite suggestion to keep it down. A viral video recently posted online showed young Spanish pilgrims dancing and chanting on the final stretch of the Camino de Santiago, the centuries-old Christian pilgrimage route that ends at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. The scene, loud, exuberant, more spring break than spiritual journey, captured what residents say has become an unbearable pattern. Pilgrims arrive with trombones, tambourines, and guitars. They drink. They have picnics in historic plazas. At least one…Open
In a battle of symbols, the Catholics of Las Cruces, N.M., argue that religious freedom should stop the wall from scarring a mountain that has attracted pilgrims for nearly a century.
More than 1.5 million pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, against the backdrop of a tenuous ceasefire in the Iran war and related regional tensions.
