PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Days of heavy monsoon rain in northern Pakistan and the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir have brought some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 60 years.

More than 450 deaths have been reported and the scale of the disaster is straining rescue efforts. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped as the armed forces of both Pakistan and India ramp up relief and evacuation operations.

A temple stands amid the waters of the overflowing river Tawi during heavy rains in Jammu on September 6, 2014.

An Indian Kashmiri man uses a rope to cross swift-moving floodwater in Srinagar on September 9, 2014.

An aerial view shows buildings partially submerged in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on September 10, 2014.

A girl pauses and watches a photographer as her family members salvage items from their temporary tent after flooding in Srinagar, India.

Indian residents look toward threatened houses as waters from the overflowing Tawi river rage past in Jammu on September 6, 2014.

A Kashmiri flood victim loses his balance on his makeshift boat after he was hit by a wave as he tried to travel to a safer place in Srinagar.

Kashmiri residents struggle to withstand sudden and strong water currents while wading through floodwaters in their efforts to move to safer places.

Floodwaters engulf temples in Jammu, India, on September 6, 2014.

Kashmiri residents carrying a goat wade through floodwaters in Srinagar.

A mosque sits partially submerged by floodwaters after heavy rain in Wazirabad, Pakistan located in Gujranwala, on September 7, 2014.

A flood victim walks through the door frame of his damaged house, after heavy rain in Wazirabad.

A Pakistani child looks on as his family cleans their home following flooding in Rawalpindi on September 6, 2014.

Kashmiri residents climb on the roof of a house as a raft approaches to assist during floods in the outskirts of Srinagar on September 4, 2014.

Pakistani residents use a boat to rescue flood-affected residents at Jalalpur Bhattianin the Hafizabad district of Punjab province.

People stand on the rooftop of their flooded houses caused by heavy rains on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on September 5, 2014.

A truck evacuating Kashmiri flood victims to higher ground travels through a flooded street in Srinagar on September 10, 2014.

An Indian Kashmiri man makes his way along a rope across floodwaters in Srinagar on September 9, 2014.

Kashmiri people hold a man as he falls from a tractor evacuating flood victims to higher ground.

Local volunteers ferry flood victims to safety in Srinagar, India.

Pakistani villager Arshad Bibi cries while waiting for a boat to evacuate flood victims along the Chenab River, in Jhang, Pakistan, on September 10, 2014.

A Pakistani villager surveys his partially damaged and flooded house in a suburb of Jhang district, northwest of Lahore, Pakistan.

An Indian tourist is airlifted from the roof of a of a five-story hotel, four of which are submerged in floodwater.

An Indian tourist cries as she is airlifted into a chopper in Srinagar.

Kashmiri men move with their cattle towards safer areas.

Pakistanis evacuate their villages in a boat along the flooded Chenab River, in Jhang, Pakistan, on September 10, 2014.

An Indian Air Force helicopter rescues a Kashmiri resident from a house submerged by floodwater.

Pakistani Christians assist an elderly woman in the flooded area of Rawalpindi

Pakistani residents wade through floodwaters following heavy rain in Lahore, Pakistan on September 4, 2014.