Flood And Fury: Five days, no photos, no answers — Nepal’s endless search after the flood

On the morning of August 26, a shard of the Langtang glacier broke off and thundered into the Trishuli valley, unleashing a tsunami from the sky that erased villages, bridges and highways within hours. With over a thousand confirmed dead and thousands more missing even as India and China rushed to help, Nepal’s deadliest disaster of the decade is an intimation of greater devastation to come if the construction-destruction cycle in the Himalayas is not checked