Sorrows on both sides of the family

My aunt Addie passed away last week. She'd been suffering for a long time, and she's free from suffering now, but all of us will miss her.

Vandana's cousin Shyamal Sinha and four of his colleagues have been lost on Nanda Devi (a mountain in the Himalayas) for 18 days now (after a blizzard). Apparently the record for surviving under similar conditions is 28 days and Shyamal is an accomplished mountaineer, so we still have hope for him and his colleagues.