The Surrey family, which includes a former Mrs India UK, are among at least 33 Britons unaccounted for after collapsing bedrock beneath Langtang Lirung dragged a vast glacier section into the valley.The Trishuli River surged 27 feet in just 30 minutes after a magnitude-5.2 glacial collapse sent water and mud across 40km of the Himalayan border.Nepal has declined offers of search teams from South Korea, India, the US and Britain, even as more than 1,400 people — including a 13-year-old British girl — remain unaccounted for.A barrier lake formed from avalanche debris on the Nepal-Tibet border has begun overflowing, forcing rescue teams to suspend operations for 90 minutes amid fears of a second devastating wave.With 1,500 people still missing, Pramod Poudel fears his wife, parents, brother and uncle were among those swept away when 90 per cent of his family's village was destroyed.Hundreds have been killed and around 1,500 people remain missing after the glacial collapse unleashed catastrophic flooding across the Nepal-Tibet border region.
• Satellite images taken on Thursday showed that bedrock under the Langtang Lirung glacier gave way, dragging a massive ice block downward and propelling rocks and ice into the valley, unleashing walls of water and mud several storeys high. Associate professor Dan Shugar of the University of Calgary said it was not only the glacier that failed but "a much larger chunk of the bedrock of the mountainside itself." The event generated a magnitude 5.2 earthquake signal and sent floodwaters surging as high as 650ft through the Rasuwa district. Scientists warn climate change is making such disasters more frequent, with 15 million people worldwide living in glacial flood danger zones.
