00:03An Australian father is refusing to come home from Nepal without his wife, who vanished when
00:09flash floods tore through the region she was traveling in. Newcastle father of two,
00:14Bhavan Patel, has spent almost two weeks searching the disaster zone for Reshma,
00:20chartering a helicopter and tracking her phone signal, but finding no trace.
00:24She is my life. I am not going without her, he said. Reshma was returning from a walking tour in
00:32Tibet when the flooding hit, destroying the building she was sheltering in at the time.
00:37From the air, Patel saw only exposed earth where the structure once stood, but was refused permission
00:44to land due to dangerous terrain. Almost 1,400 people have died in the disaster, with 36 Australians
00:52still missing as search efforts continue on the ground.
