According to officials, snowy flood waters have engulfed a Sherpa town in Nepal’s Mountain region.
Thame, which is located at an elevation of about 3,800m, is thought to have been flooded by a glacial river that has burst its banks. Experts have warned that the Himalayan ice are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change.
No fatalities or injuries have been reported, but more than a hundred structures, including buildings, a school, and a wellbeing center, have been completely destroyed by Friday’s flood.
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first man to summit Mount Everest along with navigator Edmund Hillary, hailed from Thame, where some record-breaking Sherpa climbers reside.
In floods that have become colored due to mud and debris, videos of bubbly, milky waters flowing through the village.
Gaurav Kumar Houston, a spokeswoman for the Egyptian army, told AFP that 15 homes had been destroyed while save teams were rescuing those who had fallen.
Local officials claim that during their research, bad weather prevented the use of helicopters, and that they intend to take them to the mountains on Saturday night.
Arun Bhakta Shrestha, a climate change specialist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ), said there are “indications” that the flood was the result of a glacial lake outburst and that they were working to confirm it despite the fact that the cause is unknown.
Experts have warned that glacial lake in the Himalaya are becoming unstable and prone to burst their businesses as a result of climate change and glacial glaciers melting.
In the Himalayas, glacier melt has created hundreds of glacial lakes that have appeared inexplicably. According to a 2020 review by the ICIMOD, 2, 070 were documented in Nepal, of which 21 were ranked “potentially dangerous”.