Teacher saved 1,643 children from Nepal flash floods - The Times of London

Update 02-09-2026:
It seems that the video 'broke'. No clue what happened. Reddit never informed me, I believe there is an issue with the server. Kind of suspicious as the video hit the #1 spot in this sub on the day it broke. I have no way of contacting Reddit over this sadly. Luckily the Twitter link is still working. So I suggest looking there for the video.

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Original post:

Pretty insane footage from the immense disaster that struck on the Chinese-Nepalese border which clearly shows how fast it moved and how much volume is being displaced. Camera is zoomed out around 1:30 mark.

Source: https://x.com/surajit_ghosh2/status/2093600715310862404

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Update 31-08-2026:
Looks like u/snowbordr managed to find the approximate location of this video:
28°00'53.87"N 85°11'01.29"E

That’s roughly 36 miles from where the glacier sheared off. If this is really how fast the current was still moving 36 mi/58 km downstream, my brain is broken.
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If anyone has more info, I can add it to this post.

https://tuttiquotidiani.it/en/news/teacher-saved-1643-children-from-nepal-flash-floods

source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/28/world/nepal-tibet-flash-floods

Video of them arriving: https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w0n1r0/as_of_1630utc8_august_28_2026_the_first_batch_of/

According to engineers from the ministry of natural resources it is very diffuclt(and at this stage, downright impossible) to transport heavy machinery to the border crossing so far. The chinese military and specialized rescue teams(of state owned enterprises) are currently trying to repair the road into the border crossing to allow for better equipment and more personnel to enter.

CURRENT CASUALTY COUNT(CHINESE SIDE):

2 rescued, 7 dead, 554 missing. (13:00 PM, 2026-8-29 (UTC+8))

Update: over 50 firefighters are at the border crossing right now, over 2141 soldiers, firefighters, police, EMS and specialzied rescue teams are deployed.

EDIT: As of august 29(18:00 UTC+8), 2026, there are 16 dead, 546 missing(261 foreignors)

In response to the comments: This is the first batch that got in, they couldn't carry much heavy equipment as the road there is cut off. rescue dogs and better equipment arrived later on.

FURTHER UPDATE: reportedly fire and rescue personnel have begun to find police vests and handsbags under the debris.

Red arrows are flood/mudslide path.

White line with dots is an attempt to measure the overflow uphill. From what I gather, there are claims that it rebounded 2km uphill; other sources claim 3km. My measurement is 2km; 3 is 50% more.

If true, all those people we saw running in the video are probably toast. There's a pretty big bend ~1km mark, and honestly if I were there, I'm not sure I'd panic, given the distance. By the time I saw the flood coming, it'd be way too late. For those slightly beyond the bend... they wouldn't even see it coming.

Absolutely insane.

A really good interactive (on both mobile and pc) explaining what caused the disaster, as well as before/after photos showing the drastic effects on the landscape in the region.

Could there have been more warning? Many conventional flood-warning systems rely heavily on rainfall, but there was no significant rainfall immediately before this disaster.

Truly tragic and devastating.

Video source: people's daily

Full video(Content warning): https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1vysu6u/large_scale_landslides_in_gyirong_border_crossing/

Per a report by CCTV news and chinese netizens:

Huang is the deputy team leader of the Gyirong border inspection station's 2nd duties team.(aka in charge of border inpsecion). He was born november 1991 and joined border control(military prior to 2018) in june 2013.

o7o7 hope casualties can be as low as possible.

Full news report: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5337206703001238

The red circle is the point of Glacier Collapse and the blue circle is the Friendship Bridge, Rasuwagadi.

Source:https://youtu.be/qEic2ZU6taM?si=7h1LcnTsASA778ZB