Archive for February 2021

BREAKING NEWS! RIL is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of two detailed glacial hazard assessments for the Pumqu (Tibet)/Arun Valley (Nepal) and the Poiqu (Tibet)/Bhote Koshi (Nepal) catchments.  These represent comprehensive, detailed, assessments of the glacial hazards within each of these two major catchments each of which lies upstream of cascades of multiple major…

A devastating debris flow occurred on Sunday 7th February in Chamoli District, Uttarakhand, northern India, resulting in 26 deaths thus far with about 171 people missing including 35 construction workers trapped in a tunnel at the Rishi Ganga HPP at the time of writing.  It appears to have originated as a major snow, ice, and…