Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says

Arnold Dix, an Australian engineer and geologist who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, says finding two workers alive in Trishuli 3A ‘gives us hope’ There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”. Nine days after the deadly floods, two workers were pulled out alive from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal. Continue reading...