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Drone and ground pictures from Devighat, Trishuli and the Rasuwagadhi tunnels show a valley filled to the second storey with grey silt rather than…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 31, 2026
The Bhote Koshi flood did not wash these towns away. It filled them — the aerial pictures from Devighat and Trishuli show four- and five-storey buildings still standing with grey silt packed to the second floor and the entire riverbank flattened into a plain…
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Look at the tree line on the left of that frame and then at the roofs. The pale surface between them is not water; it is deposited sediment, metres deep, and it set hard within days. Excavators, not boats, are what this stage of the disaster needs, and the…
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Pictures like this get shared as miracles. The duller explanation is usually geometry — a spur of bedrock, a bend that split the flow, a neighbour's wall that took the first hit. It is worth saying plainly because the same geometry is what decides which…
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The search underground · Rasuwagadhi Tunnel search photographs: Chinari Post, via Instagram, 31 August 2026. These four frames are the hardest part of the story and the least seen. The search team went into the Rasuwagadhi headrace, found no one, and…
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What this means for you Rasuwa and Langtang are closed to trekking in any meaningful sense and our departures there are paused, not discounted. Everest, Annapurna, Manaslu and the Khumbu are in separate river systems and are running normally — do not read…
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Because a debris flow is not a wave that knocks things over so much as a moving mass of sediment that fills whatever it reaches. Reinforced concrete frames survived; everything at ground level did not. It is also why demolition and excavation, not drying out…
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They were published by Nepali news accounts and residents between 29 and 31 August and match the locations they name. We have linked each original so you can check it. Where a figure appears in this piece it comes from the Kathmandu Post, the EU's ERCC daily…
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For the near term, yes, and we would rather say that than sell you a departure we cannot run. Our running assessment sits in is Langtang open after the flood , and the wider status page is here . Updated 31 August 2026 with the National Disaster Risk…
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We are based in Pokhara and we are following this story. Figures are provisional and we date every one of them.