The daughter of a Canterbury couple who escaped the snowstorm in Nepal's Himalayas says it is not the first time her mother has dodged death, Radio New Zealand reports.
Peter and Elizabeth Cammock were trekking in the area where at least 40 people have been killed, and nearly 400 people were rescued from the Annapurna trail.
Alice Cammock and her two brothers have since had email contact from their parents confirming they are safe and carrying on with their hiking holiday.
Cammock said her mother was a survivor of the CTV building collapse in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and this situation was all too familiar.
She said they were incredibly lucky to have their mother, and she felt sorry for the people who had lost loved ones in the Nepal tragedy.
Meanwhile, rescue teams in Nepal said that there were now no trekkers left stranded after completing their search for survivors of a devastating Himalayan storm.
The focus now was on recovering bodies buried in the snow, a government spokesman told the BBC.
It was unclear how many people may still be missing in the country's worst-ever trekking disaster.
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