A barely
conscious Kabir Maharjan floated in a dark, muddy pool inside a pitch-black
passage for nine days, trapped beneath the wreckage of Nepal’s worst flood
disaster in decades.
When he awoke
at a hospital following a miracle rescue, his clouded mind failed to recognize
his own wife, leaving him to ask why she had delayed in giving him a bed.
Maharjan and
mechanical foreman Sanjay Sah survived this ordeal after a glacier collapsed
above the Trishuli valley on 26 August, triggering...