Nepal earthquake: Sackville mom hears from daughter on Everest
Bonnie Stiles is proud but worried about her 27-year-old daughter, Lindsay
Sackville mother Bonnie Stiles received the call she had been anxiously waiting for at 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
Her 27-year-old daughter was finally able to call her mother in New Brunswick after arriving in a village at the bottom of Mount Everest after Saturday's earthquake in Nepal.
"It's been a great feeling and a great stress relief and she's a tough girl and she's going to do what she needs to do." Bonnie said.
Lindsay Stiles was climbing to the first base camp on Mount Everest when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit and caused devastating avalanches.
"Just want you all to know I am safe and unhurt by the recent disaster in Nepal, I was in Deboche when the quake hit and only felt a small tremor. We continued on the following day despite hearing the news of Kathmandu and on Everest. Once the second quake hit while walking by the glacier ... we quickly decided to come back down," Lindsey Stiles said in a Facebook post.
Bonnie Stiles said her daughter is trying to respond to everyone back home who has been worried. But the younger Stiles is not in a hurry to leave Nepal.
I'm very proud of her for wanting to stay and help and do the things that she is doing, mind you I'm a parent so I am worried all the time.- Bonnie Stiles
Lindsay Stiles wrote on her Facebook page, "I'll be flying back to Kathmandu soon and trying to help in any which way I can."
She had managed to make a short, two-minute phone call on Sunday letting her family know she was fine and that everyone in her group was fine.
But Stiles said she has still been worrying about whether her daughter would be able to leave the country in all of the turmoil.
"I'm very proud of her for wanting to stay and help and do the things that she is doing, mind you I'm a parent so I am worried all the time," she said.
Stiles admits she is also concerned her daughter doesn't know how devastating the earthquake has been in Kathmandu.
"I think until she's actually down there and sees it all, I think she's going to be overwhelmed," she said.
Stiles said her daughter had been living in Australia until last October working with a program called Global Work and Travel, and had planned to return to Australia this summer to work.
She had hoped her daughter would come home after the earthquake, but this disaster has not deterred her.
"Now when she's done there she's going to go do a trip in China and then to India with a friend and then she will be going to Australia for another year, she's not coming back to Canada ... she's living her life," she said.
"I wasn't happy with her going to Nepal by herself, but she's done it before, travelled by herself and who would have thought that this disaster would happen. It hasn't happened in 80 years," she said.