Chinese tour guide recounts last-minute escape from mudslide

A tour guide who made a last-minute decision to postpone his group's journey through Gyirong into Nepal has recounted their close shave with the flooding, describing Wednesday as "a day of immense luck, yet one weighed down by a heavy sense of foreboding". “It rained all night [on Tuesday], and I was worried we wouldn’t be able to see the snow-capped mountains," the guide, surnamed Mu, has told Zhejiang-based Tide News. "So I decided to lead them up first to a viewpoint in an