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The Araniko Highway connecting Kathmandu to China’s border is blocked after road collapses at multiple points, while the BP Highway linking the eastern regions is buried under debris.
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The only paved road I presently know about is a road over a 20,000 foot pass that will take you eventually to Lhasa, Tibet at 12,000 feet elevation.
However, here's the thing. A friend of mine took a bus over this road and came upon in a bus another bus filled with dead people because they had all died from the altitude and exposure when the bus broke down. They were left like this dead for a long time because of the relative impossibility there of moving the bus or the people out of the bus. I don't know how they constructed this road but many likely died building this paved road. However, imagine being stuck at 20,000 feet and dying on this road because the road has been washed out multiple places.
Where I live in California there is a road called Highway 1 which collapses often into the ocean between Monterey and Morro Bay and often especially during the winter people get locked into this area by road closures both directions. If you multiply this problem by a factor of 100 you understand why many people die when roads like this over 20,000 feet in altitude are closed between Nepal and Tibet.
Even when I was there getting a Trekking permit for my family to hike 50 miles (In and out) of Helambu region on trails (with no roads at all) they had pictures of dead westerners in various states of death to warn people from civilized regions of the world that they could easily die trekking in Nepal because no one likely was going to rescue them if they were injured then in 1985 and 1986. We trekked into Helambu region I believe in March of 1986 as a family of 5 from ages 10 to 37 (the 5 of us) then.
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