A month after the Bhotekoshi flash floods, Nepal is still counting its dead. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority lists 1,453 dead and 5,285 missing, with identification of bodies the slowest part of the response. The disaster struck on August 26, when a glacier on Mount Langtang Lirung fractured at about 5,200 metres. The collapse set off an ice-and-rock avalanche that became a massive debris flow, sweeping down the Bhotekoshi river along the Nepal-Tibet border. Authorities have rescued 13,795 people, but 1,113 survivors remain in 21 holding centres in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading. About 900 hydropower project workers are among the missing. Only about 7 per cent of recovered bodies have been identified. DNA samples from 1,206 bodies have been collected and matched against 1,889 samples from families of the missing. Across the border in Tibet, China reports 43 dead and 519 missing. Prime Minister Balendra Shah has said the Bhotekoshi flood was ‘not an ordinary flood’ and has urged the world to act on climate change, which scientists link to the glacier’s collapse.