Last month, all 41 Indian workers were rescued after being trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas in northern India for 17 days.
To many Indian scholars, however, the near-disaster was a foreseeable outcome as the country’s government officials ignored repeated warnings from scientists trying to carve out Chalda in the Himalayas’ highly unstable geology. Hazards of the large traffic system on the Tomb Road. Researchers hope the tunnel collapse and the landslides and floods associated with other…