2026年8月28日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:05 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
本周早些时候，一对来自旧金山湾区的夫妇正在前往西藏朝圣途中，他们周五对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，当看到如山的洪水向他们袭来时，他们以为自己必死无疑。
“我当时就知道自己要死了，”阿贾娜·拉贾对CBS新闻说道。“我真的觉得自己要死了。”
周三，喜马拉雅山脉一处冰川崩塌，大量洪水涌入下方山谷，在尼泊尔和西藏交界的山区引发灾难性山洪。此次洪灾已造成近600人死亡，据估计另有2500人失踪，搜救人员正疯狂搜寻幸存者。
美国国务院周五表示，据估计约有90名美国人失踪。
当强大的洪水从喜马拉雅高海拔地区奔涌而下时，融化的冰川和碎屑首先冲击了尼泊尔的蒂穆尔村，拉贾和她的同伴帕塔比拉曼·文卡特桑及其旅游巴士当时就在该村庄附近。
这对夫妇正在进行首次西藏朝圣之旅，西藏是中国的自治区，与尼泊尔接壤。他们驾车途经蒂穆尔，当时正身处尼泊尔靠近中尼边境的拉苏瓦县的巴士上，一场类似海啸的景象突然出现。
“那浪有60到70英尺高，看起来像海啸，但颜色是深黑色的，”文卡特桑说道。“……我能看到这个怪物般的东西冲下来。那一刻我甚至不确定那是不是水，老实说，我以为是森林火灾。”
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拉贾说，她抓住文卡特桑的衣领，拽着他喊“快跑”，两人随即跳下巴士。
成千上万的人争相逃命，手机拍摄的视频显示，一些人被卷入汹涌的洪水中，而另一些人则成功爬到更高处的安全地带，最终被直升机救出。
这对夫妇说，他们沿着台阶拼命奔跑，试图前往地势更高的地方。
“一路上，你知道的，房屋被冲垮，洪水卷走了家园，”文卡特桑说道。
拉贾说，她能听到下方被洪水冲走的人们的尖叫声。
“我亲眼目睹了死亡就在眼前，”拉贾说道。
一名向导带领他们爬上附近一座山顶的平坦区域。攀爬过程极为艰险。
“那山太高了，我都不知道我们是怎么爬上来的，”拉贾说道。“真的太艰难了。”
文卡特桑形容这次攀爬“狭窄湿滑”，路上“全是泥浆、碎石和石块”。
他们当晚和其他几名幸存者一起待在一个山羊棚里，其中包括当地居民和游客，第二天便被直升机救出。
这对夫妇表示，他们旅游巴士上的所有人都幸存了下来。
“我们能活下来简直就是奇迹，”文卡特桑说道。
这对夫妇正心怀感恩。文卡特桑表示，这次经历让他们更加珍惜生命。
“这件事让我对生命有了更深的感悟，”文卡特桑说道。“行善、做好事、心存善念，剩下的就交给上天吧。我只能说这么多了。”
California couple recounts surviving deadly Nepal flood: “I knew I was going to die”
August 28, 2026 / 9:05 PM EDT / CBS News
A couple from the San Francisco Bay Area who were on a pilgrimage to Tibet told CBS News on Friday that they thought they were going to die when they saw a mountain of water coming toward them earlier this week.
“I knew I was going to die,” Anjana Raja told CBS News. “I knew I was going to die.”
The catastrophic flash flooding that struck a mountainous border area of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday —when a glacier in the Himalayas collapsed and sent torrents of water into the valleys below — has killed nearly 600 people, with an estimated 2,500 more believed to be missing as search and rescue crews frantically scour for survivors.
An aerial view of the extensive destruction and debris deposits along the Trishuli River corridor following the catastrophic flooding in the Nuwakot District of Nepal on Aug. 28, 2026. Sameer Shrestha/Anadolu via Getty Images
The U.S. State Department said Friday that about 90 Americans are estimated to be among the missing.
When the avalanche of powerful waters ripped down from the high Himalayas, the melting glacier and debris first hit the Nepali village of Timure, near where Raja and her partner Pattabiraman Venkatesan were with their tour bus.
The couple were making their first pilgrimage to Tibet, an autonomous region of China that shares a border with Nepal. They had driven through Timure, and were in the bus in Nepal’s Rasuwa District, near the Nepal-China border, when what looked like a tsunami appeared.
“It’s like 60, 70 feet, it looked like a tsunami, but dark black,” Venkatesan said. “… I could see this monster thing coming down. At that point I didn’t know if it was water. I thought it was fire, forest fire, honestly.”
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Raja said she grabbed Venkatesan by the collar, pulled him and said, “Run,” as the two of them jumped off the bus.
As thousands of people ran for their lives, cellphone videos showed some getting swallowed into the churn, while others were able to climb to safety higher up and were eventually airlifted out.
The couple said they sprinted up a set of steps trying to reach higher ground.
“Along the way, you know, houses were coming down, it was bringing down homes,” Venkatesan said.
Raja said she could hear the screams of people who were being swept away by the floodwaters below.
“I saw death right in front of my eyes,” Raja said.
A guide led them up to a flat area at the top of a nearby mountain. The climb was treacherous.
“So tall up, I don’t know even how we climbed,” Raja said. “It was really hard.”
Venkatesan described the climb as “narrow and so slippery,” with “mud and stones and rocks and everything.”
They spent that night in a goat shed with several other survivors, including local residents and tourists, and were airlifted out the following day.
The couple said everyone aboard their tour bus survived.
“The fact that we survived is nothing short of a miracle,” Venkatesan said.
The couple are counting their blessings. Venkatesan said the experience has given them a renewed appreciation for life.
“It strengthens my thought on life,” Venkatesan said. “Be good, do good, think good, and leave the rest to whoever is above us. That’s all I can say.”