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When French rescue teams were first dropped in the Himalayan town of Balakot on Monday night, they appeared as bewildered and overwhelmed as Balakot's remaining survivors. Balakot had once been a hillside town of 20,000 people, but the earthquake has reduced it to a muddy smear. Ninety percent of its houses were obliterated. There were so few people left alive that sometimes, where you would expect to see a funeral procession, instead there would be a solitary man heading toward the graveyard, carrying on his shoulders the white shrouded body of his wife or child...
...weeks ahead, there's also the challenge and burden of reconstruction. ?It's a gigantic task, and we must be very quick," says Aiyaz, as he gestures at the Himalayan peaks around him. ?Come November and December, winter will...
...Kupwara are market towns in a Himalayan valley of preternatural beauty which, for half a century, have endured the fear, death and trauma of being on the frontline of one of the most dangerous conflicts on earth, that of India and Pakistan. On Saturday, nature turned on them...
...Pakistan, military rescue pilots who flew over Himalayan valleys on their side of the border saw scores of villages pulverized by landslides unleashed by the quake. Pakistani officials also say that the mountain town of Muzaffarabad, also on the Line of Control, with a population of more than a hundred thousand inhabitants, is "70% destroyed...
They gathered by a grave tucked into fields of yellow rape flowers high in the Himalayan foothills. There, a dozen-odd guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders...