Rasuwa district of Nepal no stranger to natural disasters

Justin RowlattClimate editor The village of Langtang was completely destroyed by a catastrophic avalanche and landslide in April 2015. Pictured is a woman walking among the remains of the Rusuwa district village the year after the disaster It is worth noting a parallel with the 2015 Langtang disaster. This latest event also appears to have originated on Langtang Lirung, the mountain above the valley. In 2015, the earthquake triggered a vast avalanche of ice, snow and rock from the mountain that