Chitwan, Jan. 22 -- Tyre Kanchha. One may be amazed upon hearing the unusual name. But once people learn what Santa Bahadur Shrestha, widely known by that nickname, has been doing along the country's most treacherous highways and rivers for decades, amusement quickly turns into respect.

For the past eight days, the 62-year-old has been camping on the bank of the Trishuli river in Tanahun with a single purpose-retrieving the wreckage of a bus swallowed by the river two and a half years ago. Two vehicles were swept into the Trishuli by a massive landslide at Simaltal along the Narayanghat-Muglin road section in ward 29 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City on July 12, 2024. The remains of one of the vehicles have been detected. And Shrestha is no...