Tag: Nepal glacial flood

  • Tsunami of Dirt: Nepal’s Deadly Flood Began With a Mountain Giving Way

    Tsunami of Dirt: Nepal’s Deadly Flood Began With a Mountain Giving Way

    Rajendra Dawadi had roughly 900 students under his care when a mountain high above Nepal suddenly began to collapse. Within minutes, a massive mixture of ice, rock, mud, boulders and trees was racing toward communities below, transforming a remote Himalayan slope into the source of a devastating flood. Dawadi had spent years teaching inside Tribhuvan…