A huge 2,000‑foot chunk of Himalayan ice is believed to have broken from a glacier high above Nepal's Rasuwa district and crashed more than 1,000 metres into a valley, triggering a deadly flash flood that tore through villages, roads and hydropower sites.
Scientists are still piecing together the exact chain of events, but early satellite imagery suggests the collapsing glacier set off an ice‑rock avalanche that blocked the Lhende Khola River and helped unleash the disaster.
