Gita Chaudhary is Nepal’s Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Environment.
We are still grieving the thousands dead and missing from the Rasuwa-Bhotekoshi climate catastrophe on August 26. The ice-rock avalanche originated at 5,200m above sea level and carried roughly 100 million cubic metres of debris-laden water, at an average speed of 150km/h, burying homes, farms, schools in minutes. We lost more than 1,400 lives and more than 5,200 people remain missing.