Share on In 2013, Uttarakhand saw catastrophic floods - the country’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami. According to the National Institute of Disaster Management's India Disaster Report 2013, about 169 lives were lost and more than 4,000 people were “presumed dead”. Alice Sharma, then 16 years old, was in Kedarnath, the centre of the disaster, at that time. She had gone there on a pilgrimage tour with her friends and family. “I was stuck in a room with 20 people and it was hell to see people die and others abandon their family members’ bodies to survive themselves. I didn't know if I would be going back home,” she recalls.