Families in Northern Virginia are urgently seeking help to locate a group of ten local men who vanished during severe flooding along the Nepal-China border.
The men, who trained for months for the trek, were traveling to Mount Kailash in Tibet together with a local guide and two support staff. They were caught in the deluge when a suspected magnitude 5.2 landslide — triggered by a glacial collapse and severe debris flow, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — struck the region. Local authorities report that more than 390 people have died and upwards of 1,400 remain missing across the affected area.
