After 48 hours unreachable, her voicemail finally lit up their phones

Cara Severino, 26, spent 48 hours unreachable in the Himalayas before her parents' phones lit up with a voicemail. She had been trekking the Langtang Valley on August 26 when a glacial collapse sent a wall of water along the Nepal-China border. The U.S. Geological Survey said the landslide's shaking equaled a magnitude 5.2 earthquake. Cara ended up stranded at Kyanjin Gompa, a mountain village and monastery, with regional networks down and her phone battery dead. Back in Sydney, her parents watched the death toll climb, unable to reach her. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong later confirmed consular officials had traced Cara and moved her to safety. Her parents called hearing her voice a "miraculous gift," and thanked the Nepalese guides who stayed by her side. Cara credited the crew she met on day one, when they entered the national park by tractor. The death toll from the floods has since passed 1,000.