Floods in Nepal and Tibet: 'The disaster began with a landslide that swept a glacier along with it'
While the exact volume of rock and ice that broke away in the Himalayas has yet to be measured, this catastrophe is already of exceptional magnitude, explains glaciologist Adrien Gilbert in an interview with Le Monde.

<p>While the exact volume of rock and ice that broke away in the Himalayas has yet to be measured, this catastrophe is already of exceptional magnitude, explains glaciologist Adrien Gilbert in an interview with Le Monde.</p>