WASHINGTON - The Feb 7 disaster in the high mountains of India's Uttarakhand state, should be a wake-up call for governments and contractors bent on building infrastructure across the inherently unstable Himalayas, experts say.
But there have been previous wake-up calls which have gone unheeded.
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