Families of pilgrims likely caught in floods are desperate for news from Nepal

A young boy is helped by a women to put up a photograph of her missing relative on a wall alongside photographs of missing and deceased people displayed outside a government hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption

As the possibility of more mudslides threaten towns along the Nepal-China border, the search continues for more than 2,400 people missing , including dozens of U.S. citizens, after last week's catastrophic floods.

Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai said Sunday that 734 bodies have been recovered four days after nearly 30-foot high waves of water swept through mountain valleys.

The Red Cross estimated that more than 90,000 people were affected by the flooding. Nepal says it has deployed thousands of rescue workers, with people still being found alive this weekend.

As of Sunday morning, 85 Americans are still unaccounted for, according to U.S. State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott.

"We've also now seen nine Americans be safely evacuated. We are currently unaware of any U.S. citizen deaths at this time," Pigott said during an interview with ABC News "This Week."

Among the Americans missing are tourists, hikers and those on a pilgrimage to the holy site of Mount Kailash, which is located in a remote part of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It's considered a once-in-a-lifetime journey for several faiths.

Divya Chandrashekar told NPR that her brother-in-law Ragu Rajan, and his wife, Archana Suresh, had planned the trip to Mount Kailash for the past year.