Monday, May 4, 2015

Langtang is gone!

Hope - Langtang village 3475m, Nepal - January 2nd 2015: Tibetan wife is waiting for her husband who went to visit a friend in the upper village of Kyanjin Gompa.

The region was hit by a snow storm the same day and she didn't have info if her husband has arrived safely, if he was in the village or on the way home. The same day in the evening her husband came back to their home and said that he had arrived in the the village moments before the storm caught up the region. The Langtang village is reported totally destroyed by the 7.8 earthquake on 25 April in Nepal, "All lodges destroyed, at least 12 Trekkers gone and many Nepalis" reported Ian Wall for @natgeo



Langtang anno - The life in the Himalayan village Langtang 3457m before the mega 7.8 earthquake that hit #Nepal on April 25th. By @natgeo report the #Langtang village is totally destroyed along with few other lower villages in the Langtang valley. 

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