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The Bhote Koshi flood took Timure in about seven minutes, here's how four people got out

Four named survivors describe running uphill as the market disappeared behind them, and a CCTV timestamp shows how little warning anyone downstream…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 29, 2026

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The people who lived through the Bhote Koshi flood at Timure survived it by running uphill within the first two or three minutes, and almost nobody who waited to work out what the noise was got that chance. A border security camera at Gyirong Port…

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The CCTV timestamp is the most useful number anyone has

Seven minutes is the finding that matters most for anyone who walks in these valleys. The seismic network logged the collapse at 08:37 NPT; the camera at the Gyirong customs complex catches the wave at 08:44 NPT. Between those two readings sits about 14 km of…

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Raju Budhathoki thought it was an earthquake

Budhathoki, a customs agent, was resting in his room at Timure when the hillside began to shake at about 8:45. He assumed a quake and ran for the police post — and found the police running too. He went over a wire fence, tearing his hand, and kept going until…

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Prakash Gautam spent the night on dropped noodles

Gautam, also a customs agent at Timure, described a rumble and then darkness — a black cloud over the market within moments. "I ran out of my room without knowing what I was doing," he said. He spent Wednesday night in the forest, eating instant noodles other…

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The men still under the mountain

The hardest part of this story is not on the surface. Nepal's independent power producers put 934 people unaccounted for across 11 hydropower projects , and the Nepal Army prioritised 19 tunnels. At Chilime, executive director Baburaj Maharjan said plainly…

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What this means for you Rasuwa and the Langtang corridor are not a trekking destination right now, and we are not selling them as one — our Langtang departures are paused, not discounted. Everest, Annapurna and Manaslu sit in different watersheds and are…

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