Solukhumbu, NEPAL —The Sherpas living here at the foot of Mount Everest worship the big lakes in the mountains as God—a temperamental one.
“It was some 25 years ago, and the flood came in the afternoon,” said 60-year-old Loma Sherpa. From her living room window, she gazed at the direction of the river nearby and made a downward sweeping motion with one arm. “It came so fast and chopped trees along its way. I ran and ran and ran to higher ground, but the water took my house, my plants and my...
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