
Blatten
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Sep 27, 2026
Building Disaster Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
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12:04Pema GyamtshoGUEST
Second, we need to identify, you know, similar areas, similar hotspots, high risk areas in all these Himalayan, you know, Hindu Kush, Himalayan mountain countries, and then learn from, you know, experiences from other countries, other mountainous countries like Switzerland, for example.
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12:23Pema GyamtshoGUEST
They had a similar incident last year in a place called Blaten.
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12:27Pema GyamtshoGUEST
The Blaten glacier collapsed as it was cold.
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12:30Pema GyamtshoGUEST
But they were able to save all lives.
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12:31Pema GyamtshoGUEST
They were able to evacuate people, you know, two days before the actual event happened.
Climate change, flooding and water management
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16:11speaker_0HOST
But, uh, th- we've also seen similar events in, in Switzerland, I think last year.
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16:18speaker_0HOST
The, the Birch Glacier, a big chunk of that collapsed down in, uh, to Blatten in the Lauterbrunnen Valley.
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16:26speaker_0HOST
And the, the picture I'm picking up is that the Himalaya in general, and also, uh, big chunks of the Alps are really a quite severe risk of, of increasing flooding.
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16:39Hannah ClokeGUEST
Yeah.