Sonia Awale
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When is a dead person really dead? (opens the original)
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Total death toll of the Trishuli Valley flood is likely to surpass 7,000. But only 1,453 bodies have been recovered with less than 10% of them identified. This disproportionate figure in recovery and identification more than a month after the 26 August catastrophe is yet another measure of the enormity of this disaster. For families of the missing this has been the most grueling – and sometimes gruesome – task. They have had to pore through graphic photographs of hundreds of corpses at hospital
Tenzing screens for the home crowd (opens the original)
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2026 has not been an easy year for Nepal and its mountaineering community. Celebrity climber Nims Purja and five other Nepalis were killed on Broad Peak in Pakistan on 30 July. Then came the unimaginable horror of the Trisuli Valley flood with the death toll likely to cross 7,000. Last week’s monsoon storms unleashed an avalanche that buried 14 Nepali climbers at Himlung Base Camp, and killed 31 more people across the country. Although the weather had cleared, the disasters were in the back of t
Nepal, one month after (opens the original)
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This Saturday it is exactly one month since the catastrophe on the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli. The death toll in Nepal and China is exceeding 8,000. One month on, only 110 of the 1,450 recovered bodies have been positively identified and handed over to families. On Friday morning, Prime Minister Balendra Shah delivered his address to the UN General Assembly where he reminded the world of what befell his nation. Secretary-General António Guterres mentioned the Nepal disaster in his speech in the context
Heartbreak and hope go together in Nepal (opens the original)
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Talk of death is everywhere at the premises of a Kathmandu hospital: “Is he still recognisable?”, “How do we keep the body from decomposing?”, “It has been four days, there is no chance she is alive.” There are no stories here of miraculous survival. Yet, families milling around in the evening rain waiting outside Teaching Hospital still hope against hope. Many have resigned themselves to fate, and are preparing for the worst. Now, they just want news of a body found so they can get closure. Oth
Nepal and Bhutan team up for seismic contingency (opens the original)
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Residents of the Bhutan capital recently woke up to sirens blaring, roadblocks, all three of the city’s bridges across the Thimphu Chu closed, and ambulances and fire engines rushing about. Those who had not paid attention to notices by the authorities could be forgiven for thinking this was a real disaster. And that was the whole point of it. The mock exercises included simulated house collapses and building fires to test both information flow, coordination, and decision-making for search and r
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