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  • 6 weeks ago
The ABC has flown into one of the worst-hit valleys near the Tibet border. As correspondent Meghna Bali reports, the destruction and devastation is overwhelming.

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00:01We have been flying over the Bottegoshi River for about 7 to 10 minutes now and the sight
00:10from this height is absolutely devastating.
00:13It puts the disaster in a completely different light.
00:17All you see for kilometres is grey sludge, houses underwater if they've survived at all.
00:24An entire settlement just wiped out.
00:27These maps have been rearranged.
00:28The contrast between these stark green cliffs and hills in this grey sludge is so confronting.
00:37Looking at this disaster from this height has thrown it into a completely different perspective.
00:43It's one thing to watch it from your computer screens, it's another to actually fly over it.
00:4898% of these settlements have just been washed away.
00:52It doesn't even look like anyone lived here.
00:59It's a very different way.
00:59It doesn't look like anyone's body.
00:59It doesn't look like anyone's body.
00:59It doesn't look like anyone's body.

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