Chamoli disaster: 'It hit the valley floor like 15 atomic bombs'

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Scientists detail February’s catastrophic rock and ice slide in the Indian Himalaya that claimed 200 lives.

It's a sombre read that reports numbers that, to be honest, are almost beyond comprehension.

"This was critical in transforming what otherwise would have been a regular rock avalanche into something that was hyper-mobile and able to travel tens of kilometres to even lower elevations," he told BBC News. Nearly all of those who died, which was 204 in total, were either working in, or visiting, the power plants. They had no warning of what was coming towards them.

That's a tricky one. The team concludes that no single event can be ascribed to climate warming, but they make the point that the frequency of rock falls in the Himalaya is increasing as temperatures rise.

 

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