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Langtang Lirung. In Langtang village, directly in the path of the landslide, 243 people died. It took the villagers two year to rebuild the houses that were destroyed by the landslide in the Langtang Lirung. The route to the mountain was only opened for after 2017, when the
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Himal forms the western portion of a complex of mountains which also includes the Jugal Himal, home of
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was made on the day of the accident, and he appeared to be in a critical condition. The rescue party found his body on 14 November at the height of 5,600 metres (18,400 ft). Presumably, he died on 9 or 10 November.
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