Humla’s Tilgaun residents decide to leave ancestral land for good

Reeling from May’s flooding and lack of support, villagers decide to move out by December.

The residents of Tilgaun, a remote village in ward 6 of Namkha Rural Municipality of Humla district, are preparing to permanently abandon their ancestral land following the devastating flash flood and dry landslides apparently triggered by a rare ‘thermokarst’ on May 15.