In this photograph taken on September 18, 2024, houses lie abandoned in the aftermath of flood caused by glacial lake outburst, at Thame village in Solukhumbu district. Nepal is reeling from its worst flooding in decades after ferocious monsoon rains swelled rivers and inundated entire neighbourhoods in the capital Kathmandu, killing at least 232 people. It took just moments for freezing floodwaters to engulf Thame in the foothills of Mount Everest, a disaster that climate change scientists say is an ominous sign of things to come in the Himalayan nation. (Photo by Migma NURU SHERPA / AFP)