Families of pilgrims likely caught in floods are desperate for news from Nepal

Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8640x5760+0+0/resize/8640x5760!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa4%2F2b%2F143192c743568661f1a089d182fa%2Fnepal-floods-1.jpg' alt='A young boy is helped by a women to put up a photograph of her missing relative on a wall alongside photographs of missing and deceased people displayed outside a government hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.'/><p>Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.</p><p>(Image credit: Dar Yasin)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5949351' />