These men had a hellish escape from Nepal’s flooded hydro tunnels. They were the lucky ones
“We don’t know how much of that tunnel is full of mud or water… So, we might only have to dig 10 meters, or we might have to dig 100 meters,” Dix told CNN on Monday local time.
As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal’s Trishuli river.
Up at the disaster site, the rescue required something almost unthinkable: going back into the tunnels that had claimed so many of his people.
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