Nepal floods: Everest, Annapurna and Manaslu are unaffected and running normally.
The 26 August flood hit one corridor in northern Rasuwa. Langtang-region treks are paused while the access road is rebuilt — everything else is operating as usual.
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The Himalaya on the front line of climate change: glaciers, floods, air and the science that matters to trekkers.
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A US$50 million project will study and drain Thulagi, Lower Barun, Lumding Tsho and Hongu II, and it could take six years. Here's what it means for trekkers.
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Balen Shah told the UN General Assembly on 24 September that Nepal needs $4.78 billion to rebuild after a flood that killed over 1,300 people.
Climate & Environment
A week of satellite, seismic and drone analysis has settled one thing — no lake burst above Rasuwa. The next one may not come from a lake either.
Climate & Environment
Warming faster up high, glaciers in retreat, floods pooling behind unstable lakes, soot on the snow and a monsoon turning extreme — how the threads tie together, and what they mean for Nepal’s water, its people and the people who trek here.
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431 megawatts gone, six plants down the same river, and another 470 MW damaged before it was even finished. The Rasuwa flood was a national infrastructure event, not just a mountain one.
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A new ICIMOD and UNDP inventory counts 3,624 glacial lakes and flags 47 as dangerous — 42 of them in the Koshi basin. The lake that killed at least 165 people in August was not among them, because it did not exist the day before.
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Scientists now say the Rasuwa flood began with an ice-and-rock avalanche that fell 1,200 m, dammed a river inside Tibet, and burst hours later — and that the dam did not exist the previous morning.
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A warmer sky holds more water, and Nepal's rains now arrive in shorter, fiercer bursts — driving worse landslides and floods.
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Soot darkens Himalayan snow so it absorbs more sunlight and melts faster — a second, faster-acting driver of glacier loss alongside warming, and the one the region could switch off within weeks.
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Nepal's flood alarms watch its own known lakes — but the Bhote Koshi's disasters keep starting across the border in Tibet, beyond every sensor, arriving with minutes of warning at best.
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As Himalayan glaciers retreat they leave meltwater lakes dammed by loose moraine — and when a dam fails, the flood tears down the valley. Here is what a GLOF is, why they are increasing, and what Nepal is doing about it.
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No single cause is confirmed yet — scientists are weighing an earthquake-triggered landslide, an ice-rock avalanche and a draining glacial lake, against a Himalaya warming fast enough to flood the same river twice in 14 months.
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The ice below Everest is measurably shrinking. For now that means more water in Nepal’s rivers. Over the long run it means less.
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Warming has thinned Everest’s ice, exposing old waste and long-lost climbers — and driving Nepal’s army-led clean-up campaigns.
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One trek, one conservation area, four climate zones and 1,226 species of wildflowers — the numbers behind Nepal's most complete walk through the Himalaya.
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For a decade, the Nepal Army raced to defuse Imja Tsho before it could flood the Khumbu. In August 2024, the real disaster came from two lakes with no names on any map.
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In September 2024 a National Geographic team found a boot, a sock and a foot on Everest's Central Rongbuk Glacier — and the label read A.C. IRVINE.
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In the Himalayan high desert of Upper Mustang, farmers are engineering cone-shaped ice towers that store winter water for spring crops — a Ladakh-born trick invented in 2013 that reached Nepal in 2022.
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Thame raised Tenzing Norgay, Apa Sherpa and record-holder Kami Rita Sherpa. In August 2024 a glacial lake almost nobody was watching reached the village in as little as 22 minutes - and a new 2026 study explains why.
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International scientists have modelled the future of the glacier under Everest — and a warmer monsoon is the only thing slowing the melt.
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