Nepal, Oct. 13 -- A Tamang settlement on the banks of the Trisuli, Khalte, with its 257 households, no longer exists. It was swept away in seconds by the wall of mud and debris that came down the Trisuli on 26 August. This was not unexpected, in fact many had warned about it. The earthquake that struck central Nepal on 25 April 2015 razed the mountain villages of Tiru, Gogane, Haku and Mailung in Rasuwa district. Landslides triggered by the 7.8M quake and subsequent aftershocks rendered the ancestral homeland of the indigenous Tamang people uninhabitable. Around 250 households left behind their homes, steep terrace farms and ancestral shrines to seek safety in the valley below. They were moved temporarily to Khalte by the Trisuli River, ...