The Bhote Koshi flood, and the warning Nepal already had.
On 26 August rock and glacier ice broke off Langtang Lirung at 5,200 m, inside a Nepali national park, and fell into the Lhende Khola on the border. Nothing was watching that slope, and the surge hit Rasuwagadhi before any warning went out. Thirteen months earlier, the same river did the same thing.
1,410
confirmed dead in Nepal
NDRRMA · 18 Sep, 9 am
6,145
missing in Nepal
NDRRMA · 18 Sep, 9 am
748MW
of hydropower damaged
Nepal Electricity Authority · 27 Aug, 12 pm
Published tolls for this event moved from 31 on the first morning to over 1,200 within eight days as bodies were recovered far downstream. Every figure on our pages carries its source and the hour it was reported true. For the latest police count, follow Nepal Police, the Kathmandu Post and Setopati directly.
This was the second time, not the first
On 10 July 2025 a supraglacial lake burst 36 km above Rasuwagadhi and took the Friendship Bridge with it. Nine died. The event was studied, reported and filed. The road crews repairing that damage were still working when the second flood arrived and destroyed their work along with everything else.
The same river, thirteen months apart
Nepal was given a rehearsal in July 2025. The first flood came from Tibet; the second began on Nepali soil. Neither basin was monitored, neither produced a warning in time, and in the thirteen months between them Nepal and China announced an information-sharing agreement that never became a mechanism.
| July 2025 | August 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 8–10 July 2025 | 26 August 2026 |
| Trigger | Supraglacial lake outburst, Purugu Glacier | Rock-and-ice avalanche off Langtang Lirung into the Lhende Khola |
| Origin | 5,150 m, in Tibet | ~5,200 m, in Nepal (Langtang National Park) |
| Distance upstream | 36 km | Above Rasuwagadhi, on the Lhende Khola (the border stream) |
| Warning in time | None | None; SMS alerts went out after the surge hit Rasuwagadhi |
| Basin monitored | No | No |
| Dead in Nepal | 9–11 | 1,410 |
| Missing in Nepal | 18–19 | 6,145 |
| Border crossing | Friendship Bridge destroyed | Customs office destroyed |
dangerous glacial lakes monitored in July 2025
The Bhotekoshi basin was not one of them. The 2025 flood began in Tibet, where no bilateral notification mechanism existed. The 2026 one began on Nepali soil, on Langtang Lirung inside a national park, and nothing was watching that slope either. The SMS alerts went out after the surge had already hit Rasuwagadhi.
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