In the early hours of 5 August, a teenage boy sent a chilling message to his father from a remote Himalayan village in Uttarakhand: 'papa, we won't survive.' Within hours, he was missing, one of dozens unaccounted for after a devastating flash flood tore through the region.
The village of Dharali, located in Uttarkashi district, was left in ruins after a sudden cloudburst triggered landslides and floods, sweeping away homes and leaving entire families stranded or missing.
