Hopes of finding more survivors among the thousands still missing in Nepal were fading, authorities said yesterday, a week after a glacier collapse in the Himalayas unleashed flash floods that devastated the mountainous nation.

At least 1,204 people have been killed and 4,216 remain unaccounted for, with officials fearing many are buried under debris left by the floods that tore through towns and valleys near the Chinese border. Across the border in Tibet, China’s official toll has held steady since Sunday at 16 dead and 546 missing.

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Chinese rescuers carry supplies into the disaster zone via a new land route as excavators clear Gyirong Port in western Tibet, China. PHOTO: REUTERS, AFP

“The hope of finding survivors is decreasing,” Phanindra Paudel, a senior official at the government’s NEOC said.