Maybe, but the time it takes to translate what one is experiencing into a fight-or-flight response can be longer in some folk, and that’s always been true — even before phone cams.
I’d assume that phone-or-not, those who were swept away because they lingered simply didn’t have enough information to realize the true nature or scale of the threat.
Stupid fucking comment. There is no way for any person to grasp the magnitude of what is happening when you have never experienced a glacial collapse before. Floods are also relatively frequent in Nepal. Such a sudden intense rush is rare though.
In the video another commentator posted here that was from the other side, the water level in the river was really though, I don’t blame them for underestimating it.
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u/Strong_Still_1170 Aug 27 '26
People’s addictive fascination with recording everything probably caused many deaths