Family says Virginia man missing in Nepal floods was "in his happy place"

Anil Goel was among about 10 U.S. nationals at the Rasuwagadhi immigration checkpoint on Nepal's border with Tibet Wednesday morning just before a torrent of mud and floodwater swept away the facility and everything around it.On Friday, the 67-year-old Northern Virginia resident and former World Bank employee's family was still desperate for information on his whereabouts, as the death toll from the devastating floods and mudslides along the Nepal-Tibet border climbed, and at least 1,400 people remained missing."We have a photo of our father with his group from the border crossing," Anurag Goel, Anil Goel's son, who works as an engineer in Boston, told CBS News. A photo sent by Anil Goel to his family on Aug. 26, 2026, shows members of his tour group at the Rasuwagadhi immigration office, on the Nepali side of the Gyirong Port border crossing facility on the China-Nepal border, about 35 minutes before the area was decimated by a torrent of flash floodwater. Courtesy of the Goel family The photo sent by Anil doesn't actually show him, but rather at least seven members of the trekking group he was with, posing in front of the immigration office sign. His son believes he may have take...