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  • Is there a text of this elsewhere? I'm hard-paywalled (archive.is doesn't seem to capture a copy).
    by dredmorbius
  • another good article, without paywall: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/nepal-tibet-fl...
    by croisillon
  • Is Switzerland exposed to similar risk, given the amount of glaciers?
    by tintor
  • Really helpful on navigating what happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZvUQ7aoehw
    by blondie9x
  • There was a video on threads earlier today (probably long gone now) of some of the bodies they were finding. Just truly horrific what that amount of sheer force can do to a person.
    by Magi604
  • The CCTV footage was one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen on the internet lately.

    It makes me think a bit of the Johnstown flood from 1889:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood#/media/File:Th...

    by decasia
  • I haven't yet been able to properly internalize the horror of this scene. Maybe because we're exposed to so many images from disaster and action movies/videogames, I got somewhat desensitized to the "graphics", so to speak. It's like my brain is denial.

    At the same time, I know this is real and a tragedy in an unimaginable scale. Every "little walking figure" is a full human being with dreams, fears and a rich life story.

    I'm afraid that at one point it will just hit me super hard.

    by glimshe
  • https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacie...

    CCTV footage is there. Horrific scene. When you see it coming at you it’s already too late.

    by pm2222

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