Mountain villages bearing direct brunt of climate change

Avalanches and landslides intensify in the upper regions while droughts and heatwaves have surged in the plains

An avalanche on Mt Manaslu in Gorkha district on Sunday morning crashed into the Birendra lake, setting off flash floods downstream. The details of resulting losses have yet to be received, but reports said a wooden bridge that connected Samdu and Samagaun villages was swept away by the flood.