THEY KNEW THE MOUNTAINS WERE CHANGING — PART 2: The Warning Signs We Couldn’t See Until After
The mountain collapsed on August 26.
Now scientists are looking backward—and finding signs something was changing before it failed.
In Part 2 of the Mama Rae Podcast investigation into the Nepal–Tibet disaster, Mama Rae examines major developments since our original report.
Satellite analysis indicates portions of the glacier-and-rock system were moving—and apparently accelerating—before the catastrophic failure.
That does not mean anyone knew the mountain would collapse on August 26.
But it raises an important question:
Could the instability have been detected earlier if someone had been…
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