TRISHULI BAZAAR (NUWAKOT, NEPAL): Everest veterans and some of Nepal's most highly trained mountain guides joined rescue operations in flood-ravaged Rasuwa, with a specialist team entering a mud-choked hydropower tunnel Saturday and pushing around 120m inside before thick sludge and debris blocked further movement. The deployment brought skills normally used on Himalayan expeditions - rope fixing, cliff access, helicopter longline operations and movement through unstable terrain - into parts of the disaster zone where roads had disappeared and conventional rescue methods were proving difficult.

Nepal’s army rescues hundreds from a flooded hydropower tunnel as more than 1,500 remain missing, while the Nepali diaspora holds vigils in New York.

Helicopter teams are operating in high-risk conditions following a glacial collapse that inundated the Trishuli 3A project.

Rasuwa, Nepal: The Nepal Army has intensified rescue operations for people trapped inside the Rasuwa tunnel following a catastrophic flash flood.

DEHRADUN: Rescue agencies in Nepal are battling rough weather and terrain to reach more than 500 people believed to be trapped inside at least six hydro-power projects in the…