Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of changing climate patterns. Erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, avalanches and glacial lake outbursts are becoming more serious.

Rescue efforts continued on Thursday in Nepal to evacuate people stranded in flood-hit areas, after monsoon rains triggered a river flood in Rasuwa district that left nine dead and nearly 20 missing,

The devastating flash flood along the Nepal-China border has claimed nine lives, with 19 still missing. Triggered by an unexpected surge from Tibet's Lhende River, the flood disrupted infrastructure,