POCATELLO, Idaho, Oct. 1 -- Idaho State University issued the following news release:
A glacier collapse in Nepal's Langtang National Park on Wednesday, August 26, has killed at least 1,410 people and left 6,145 missing, with another 43 dead and 519 missing across the border in Tibet, according to figures reported by Nepali and Chinese officials. Nepal's government has estimated the flooding caused between $4 billion and $7 billion in economic damage.
Rajendra R. Bajracharya, a professor of surveying and geomatics engineering technology at Idaho State University, learned of the disaster the day after it struck. Bajracharya has taught at ISU since 2001.
In 2014, he returned to Nepal as a Fulbright Scholar to teach at Kathmandu University,...