A Nepalese guide who grew up where the deadly Nepal flash flood hit, says many of his family members have lost their homes and some remain missing.Several villages and more than a dozen bridges have been wiped out in a massive flood and landslides in the Rusawa district, near the border with Tibet.More than 460 people on the Nepal side are believed to be dead, and more than 900 remain missing, among them many tourists, including five New Zealanders.Aotearoa has pledged $2 million in humanitarian assistance to Nepal through the Red Cross.Nepalese guide Karma Renjen Lama, who spoke to Checkpoint from Kathmandu, where he was waiting for his family to be evacuated, said in some villages about 80 percent of the people were missing and presumed dead.An aerial view shows houses lying deluged in sludge after flash floods at Devighat, Bidur Municipality, along the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in Nepal's Nuwakot district.PRABIN RANABHAT / AFPThe villages hit by the disaster used to only be well-populated during winter, he said, but these days people live there year-round due to road access to the China highway."This time it was very big... everything's washed out, no houses left... I don't know how many people passed away. Nearly three villages totally flushed out."Lama said there had been a similar flood in the area in 2025, but at a much smaller scale which had washed out bridges.Many members of Lama's family lived in the villages that were hit on Wednesday morning, including his sister, her husband and his nephews.He said luckily, they were visiting his parents in a different village when the disaster struck.One of his nephews had been lost for two days, he said, but had since made contact.Residents survey the damage following flash floods in Trishuli, Nepal.Ezra Acayan"But many of my relatives have passed away," Lama said."Everything is gone. My sister has lost her house, my sister's son also lost everything... my own family lost everything. Now we're trying to bring these people to Kathmandu."A meeting would be held at a local monastery on Friday, Lama said, to take stock of where people were at."We do this and we will see how many people are coming back and how many people survived and what is needed."In terms of the clean up and the level of donations needed to help everyone impacted by the flooding, Lama said he worried about the money getting to people in need."We have many friends who would love to help Nepal and the Nepali people... but for example, my house was damaged in an earthquake in the past and I didn't receive any money from the government who received the money."He hoped money would get to affected villages this time.