Missing Aussies in Nepal found safe and well
A Sydney father and daughter, unaccounted for since last week's deadly blizzard and avalanche in Nepal, have been found safe and well.
Simon and Sophie Wilde have finally been able to make contact with family after the snowstorm which killed more than 40 people.
Authorities have called off the search for survivors on the Annapurna Circuit in the Himalayas.
More than 500 people were airlifted to safety, including more than 300 foreign tourists.
Earlier in the week, Mr Wilde's father, Patrick, said it was terrible not having any news from his son and grand-daughter.
Sydney dad & daughter Simon and Sophie Wilde are safe and well. Family had feared they'd been caught in deadly Nepal storms @7NewsSydney
— Matthew Snelson (@matthewsnelson7) October 22, 2014
"I have been reassuring myself on the basis that communications are very difficult there, it's entirely likely they're just unable to contact us," he told Fairfax.
"But the wait for us is terrible, it's just terrible."
Simon Wilde and daughter Sophie were due to return to Sydney by October 29.
Sophie is reportedly a student at the inner-city Newtown Performing Arts High School.
Four helicopters were sent out on Sunday to the affected areas in Mustang, Manang and Dolpa with a police official saying 34 trekkers were rescued, including 17 Nepalese, 10 Germans, five Swedes and two Australians.
Nepal has pledged to set up a weather warning system after the snowstorm caught trekkers unaware as they heading to an exposed high mountain pass on the circuit.
The disaster follows Mount Everest's deadliest avalanche that killed 16 guides in April on the world's highest peak, forcing an unprecedented shutdown.
