# Nepal: Region has hundreds of high-altitude lakes prone to unleashing enormous volumes of water

https://mins.news/en/video/35953

- France 24 English, 2026-08-28 16:57 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYmPpOWXQ3U

> The scale of Nepal’s disaster remains impossible to fully assess. Entire communities are still hard to reach, tens of thousands have been affected and official evaluations are only beginning. The Nepal Red Cross delegation head says the challenge extends beyond the immediate humanitarian emergency to what happens to these communities in the years ahead.

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