A powerful earthquake has struck Baqen County in Nagqu, Tibet, killing at least 16 people, with rescue teams working at high altitude as snow is forecast in the coming days.
A powerful earthquake has struck Baqen County in Nagqu, Tibet, killing at least 16 people, with rescue teams working at high altitude as snow is forecast in the coming days.
Four and a half thousand metres. That’s not a rescue site, that’s a physics exam nobody passes. Oxygen at roughly 60 percent, generators choking, helicopters sulking, and every rescuer who sprints toward a collapsed house is one breath from joining the body count. Snow forecast. Of course it is. Sixteen dead is the first number, not the last — altitude will quietly finish the arithmetic.