Overview
- The glacier and slope collapse on 26 August sent avalanches and floods down the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli corridors, leaving more than 1,300 confirmed dead and roughly 5,000 people listed as missing across Nepal and Tibet.
- Rescue teams have recovered a small number of late survivors, including a Chinese worker pulled from Upper Trishuli‑1 after 11 days and a 64‑year‑old woman found alive under mud in Betrawati after about 10–11 days.
- The Nepal Army says about 121 people may be inside blocked hydroelectric tunnels and has shifted to a reinforced, tunnel‑first search strategy that uses specialist teams, excavation machines and thermal cameras to clear galleries.
- More than 21,000 military, police and security personnel are deployed and international teams from several countries are assisting, but identification is a major bottleneck with only 98 bodies returned and hundreds of foreign nationals among the missing.
- Preliminary research shows an unusual heat spike in the days before the collapse that may have weakened ice and rock, experts urge caution on causation, and families have protested for faster, better‑resourced searches and clearer information.