00:00I'm Manjila Adhikari from Nepal.
00:06First of all, are you okay and safe if you are from Nepal?
00:10Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm safe.
00:12We came across a devastating flash flood in Nepal
00:16because of high-altitude glacier collapse.
00:20So it was originated from the mountain
00:24and affected thousands of lives, infrastructure,
00:27and there were even piles of dead bodies in the bank of rivers.
00:34Still hundreds of people are missing.
00:37The numbers have already exceeded 400
00:40and it's becoming more and more horrible to look at.
00:44This is a glimpse of a pattern that is only going to intensify and rigor.
00:5160,000 glaciers in the Himalayas.
00:54Each single one of those glaciers is thinning out at an accelerating rate.
01:00Thousands of glacial lakes have already been formed.
01:04They didn't exist even till a few decades back.
01:08They are like ticking time bombs.
01:10These lakes have to collapse sooner than later.
01:13Today, tomorrow, next month, two years later, five years later,
01:16and when the lake collapses,
01:17everything that will be in the way of this water will be swept away.
01:22The glaciers can give you life.
01:23And what we are seeing in Nepal today is that the glaciers can also give you a very painful death.
01:30The glaciers kept on giving us life for thousands of years.
01:35Now the glaciers have decided to give us death.
01:40Because we are giving death to the glaciers.
