Himalayan glacier collapse kills 734; 2,498 missing, U.S. cuts blamed
A sudden Himalayan collapse released a glacier and rockfall that registered as a magnitude-5.2 shock, created a deadly flash flood, and set off a political fight about whether a cancelled program or government failures could have changed the outcome. On August 26, at 16,400 feet on the Tibetan side of the Nepal-China border, the bedrock...