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Climate Crisis Stretches Nepali Military to Breaking Point

The devastating avalanche that triggered floods along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers near the China–Nepal border on August 26 left a trail of destruction, wiping out a critical border corridor, entire settlements, and traditional bazaars in an instant. The disaster has created an urgent search-and-rescue mission and humanitarian crisis, straining Nepal's already overburdened military.