August 30, 2026 — 5:00am

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Like many Australians, Samir Patel is watching the cataclysm unfolding on the Nepalese-Tibetan border with a sense of dread, desperately hoping the 41 countrymen and women of his missing after Wednesday’s flash flooding are found alive.

But he also feels a deep sense of relief and gratitude, because he knows that number could have been higher.

Patel runs Hindu pilgrimages to Tibet’s Mount Kailash several times a year, and the third and final group was due to begin their 11-day tour from Lhasa, east of the…

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