diff --git a/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.js b/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.js
index 062e3fd8d..58667094c 100644
--- a/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.js
+++ b/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.js
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ export function createBhoteKoshiEventLayer({
     return _event;
   }
 
-  async function createImagery(event) {
+  async function createImagery(event, current = () => true) {
     const rectangle = Cesium.Rectangle.fromDegrees(
       event.imagery.rectangle.west,
       event.imagery.rectangle.south,
@@ -1194,13 +1194,13 @@ export function createBhoteKoshiEventLayer({
         credit: 'Vantor WorldView Open Data · CC BY-NC 4.0',
       }),
     ]));
-    if (!_enabled) return;
+    if (!_enabled || !current()) return;
     if (_native) {
       await _native.loadImages(event.imagery.rectangle, [
         beforeProvider,
         afterProvider,
       ]);
-      setSplit(_split);
+      if (current()) setSplit(_split);
       return;
     }
     _imageryLayerCollection = _viewer.imageryLayers;
@@ -3516,7 +3516,15 @@ export function createBhoteKoshiEventLayer({
     _imageryLayerCollection = null;
   }
 
-  async function attachRenderer(viewer, { engine = null } = {}) {
+  // Each attachment and release advances this. An attachment that resumes
+  // after a release, or after its scene signal aborted, stops right there;
+  // the release that follows it owns whatever it had already created.
+  let _attachGeneration = 0;
+
+  async function attachRenderer(viewer, { engine = null, signal = null } = {}) {
+    const generation = ++_attachGeneration;
+    const current = () =>
+      generation === _attachGeneration && signal?.aborted !== true;
     _viewer = viewer;
     _engine = engine;
     if (!_viewer && _engine) _native = createNativeRenderer(engine);
@@ -3532,16 +3540,20 @@ export function createBhoteKoshiEventLayer({
             : 'esri',
       });
       await _comparisonLease.ready;
+      if (!current()) return;
     }
-    await createImagery(_event);
+    await createImagery(_event, current);
+    if (!current()) return;
     if (_floodDataSource) {
       if (_native) _nativeFlood = _native.draw(_floodDataSource);
       else await _viewer.dataSources.add(_floodDataSource);
+      if (!current()) return;
     }
     registerDynamicCredit(engine ?? viewer, BHOTE_KOSHI_CREDIT);
     _scenePathPositionCache.clear();
     _lastCinematicProgress = null;
     await syncTerrainComparison();
+    if (!current()) return;
     createSplitControl(_event);
     syncPresentationMode();
     attachCameraInputRelease();
@@ -3551,6 +3563,7 @@ export function createBhoteKoshiEventLayer({
   }
 
   async function detachRenderer() {
+    ++_attachGeneration;
     detachCameraInputRelease();
     detachEvidenceCardActivation();
     _splitControl?.destroy();
diff --git a/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.test.mjs b/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.test.mjs
index 51e5f11f5..9bc84fa40 100644
--- a/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.test.mjs
+++ b/src/data/bhoteKoshiEvent.test.mjs
@@ -2992,3 +2992,62 @@ test('Bhote Koshi corridor remains ordered downstream and inside the imagery rec
     priorChainage = point.chainageM;
   }
 });
+
+for (const stop of ['detach', 'scene-abort']) {
+  test(`Bhote Koshi attach resumed after a ${stop} leaves the next scene untouched`, async () => {
+    const event = JSON.parse(await readFile(eventUrl, 'utf8'));
+    const originalDocument = globalThis.document;
+    const originalWindow = globalThis.window;
+    installEventDom();
+    globalThis.window = { setTimeout: () => 1, clearTimeout() {} };
+    const first = eventViewer();
+    const second = eventViewer();
+    const layer = createBhoteKoshiEventLayer({
+      eventLoader: async () => event,
+      imageryProviderFactory: async (url) => ({ url }),
+      embeddedMediaFactory: () => ({ show() {}, hide() {}, pause() {}, destroy() {} }),
+      overlayHost: { setEntries() {}, setVisible() {}, clearSource() {} },
+      renderHost: { request() {}, hold() {}, release() {} },
+    });
+    const stack = (initial, gate = null) => {
+      let active = initial;
+      let generation = 1;
+      return {
+        getActiveId: () => active,
+        getSwitchGeneration: () => generation,
+        async setStack(id) {
+          await gate;
+          active = id;
+          generation += 1;
+        },
+      };
+    };
+    layer.attachMapStackController(stack('esri-imagery'));
+    const manager = new LayerLifecycle(first);
+    manager.register(layer);
+    try {
+      assert.equal(await manager.setEnabled(layer.id, true, { origin: 'local-restore' }), true);
+      await layer.detachRenderer();
+
+      // The incoming map has to switch first: the attachment waits on it.
+      let openGate;
+      const gate = new Promise((resolve) => { openGate = resolve; });
+      layer.attachMapStackController(stack('photoreal', gate));
+      const scene = new AbortController();
+      const attaching = layer.attachRenderer(second, { signal: scene.signal });
+      let detaching = null;
+      if (stop === 'detach') detaching = layer.detachRenderer();
+      else scene.abort();
+      openGate();
+      await attaching;
+      await detaching;
+      assert.deepEqual(second._test.imagery, []);
+      assert.deepEqual(second._test.dataSources, []);
+      if (stop === 'scene-abort') await layer.detachRenderer();
+    } finally {
+      await manager.destroyLayer(layer.id);
+      globalThis.document = originalDocument;
+      globalThis.window = originalWindow;
+    }
+  });
+}