Leslie Crispi describes pilgrimage as life-changing amid missing trekkers
BBC News traveled to McMinnville, Tennessee, where BBC North America Correspondent Helena Humphrey visited the Isha Foundation, the non-profit spiritual organisation that lost contact with 77 of its trek participants on the China-Nepal border. The group, drawn from several countries, was traveling in the Himalayan area when a massive flash-flood struck on August 26, the BBC reported.
Humphrey spoke with Leslie Crispi, an Isha community liaison who has completed the pilgrimage herself. Crispi described the journey as a life-changing spiritual experience for many participants and discussed how the organisation is responding to the loss of contact with the group thousands of miles away in the Himalayas.