Nepal-China’s Engineered Valley Under Scrutiny
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Um satellite images taken after the disaster showed that a huge section of the mountain itself failed . Rock and ice came down together . Uh the AP Associated Press citing satellite analysis described it as a collapse of bedrock beneath a glacier . The USGS now calls it a rapid slope failure involving a glacier . So the question becomes more specific . Did the glacier collapse and pull the mountain down ? Or did the mountain collapse and take the glacier it ? And could human development in the mountains have contributed to the disaster ? What I want to show you now is a a short video put together by a photographer . On the morning of August the 26, he took three photos from a viewing platform in the Giron Valley . The mountain he identified in the video was uh King King Shong Kingong peak in the pel's uh long