The Supersonic Ice Blender: How Falling Mountains Melt Themselves Into Floods: Why did the 26 August 2026 rock-ice avalanche in Tibet and Nepal release an instant, churning sea of water without a bursting lake? Banta uses high-energy thermodynamics and the $E_p = mgh$ potential energy conversion formula to explain how vertical free-fall, pulverization, and friction flash solid ice into a raging flood within seconds—mirroring the 2021 Chamoli and 1970 Huascarán catastrophes.