I don't think I've seen a snuff film of that scale before. I'm not good with even fictional horror. This may haunt my dreams. For most of the people there was just nothing they could do. But others would have had a chance if they had run perpendicular to the flow and climbed like their life depended on it. I'll try to remember that the next time I'm fleeing in panic from a flash flood.

Looks like a warning siren could have saved some lives. But apparently this was a black swan.

It is harrowing. It also explains why the villages in my ancestral region in India (JK, HP, UK) with close cultural and ethnic ties with Nepal used to build them at the upper portions of the sides of mountains/hills and only shifted to building at the bottom of those kinds of valleys when motorized roads became a thing in the 20th century.

Rescue operations in Nepal are in good hands, but this is sadly because those same response orgs had to respond to a similarly brutal cloud burst floods back in 2013 [0], 2021 [1] and 2025 [2].

It also shows the very real and brutal effect climate change is already having, and will only get worse.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Uttarakhand_flood

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kishtwar_district_flash_f...

150 confirmed with 47 Americans? Surprising fraction. Mountaineers or that area is popular for some reason?

I have watched a few and they look like the four horsemen TBH.