Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says

<p>Arnold Dix, an Australian engineer and geologist who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11, says finding two workers alive in Trishuli 3A ‘gives us hope’</p><p>There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nepal-tibet-flood-disaster">flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border</a> as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”.</p><p>Nine days after the deadly floods, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/nepal-tunnel-found-alive-flood-two-workers-hydropower-rescue">two workers were pulled out alive</a> from a flooded hydropower tunnel in Nepal.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/rescue-of-nepal-hydropower-workers-triumph-for-humans-and-humanity-tunnelling-expert-says">Continue reading...</a>