Debris flowing down a Himalayan valley. Towns and villages washed away. Thousands of people affected. Not the recent devastating catastrophe on the Nepal-Tibet border, but a similar disaster in the Indian eastern Himalayas in 2023.
That climate change-related disaster was triggered by a glacial lake outburst flood, or glof. It happened under the cover of darkness on the night of October 3. The resulting 270 million cm³ debris flood devastated the people and infrastructure of the Teesta river valley.
