Nepal Flood Survivors Return to Search Through Destroyed Homes

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in Bidur The three women sat together in the army tent and wept. They cried out for their sons, their husbands, their homes. As flash floods coursed through the Himalayan mountains on Wednesday morning, a monstrous black wave took everything from them. As a melting glacier high up in the Himalayas between Tibet and Nepal splintered and crashed into the valley below, it set off a deadly cascade of water, mud and d...

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel in Bidur. Photographs and video by Ahmer Khan

In pictures: Nepal flood survivors return to devastated homes, searching for lost belongings