The trigger, experts suggest, was a retrogressive slope failure high in the mountains, approximately 7 km upstream of Dharali at an elevation of 6,700 metres.

Heavy rainfall that triggered floods in Pakistan in recent weeks, killing hundreds of people, was worsened by human-caused ...

In the 12 years since the 2013 Kedarnath disaster caused by extreme rainfall and rapid snowmelt, a series of disasters have ...