Brianna Wolters has been spending every waking hour outside her shifts as a nurse at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, desperately trying to help her mother who is stranded in Nepal amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Fifty-two-year-old Molly Sitwell embarked on a journey of a lifetime in early March, after planning and training for two years. “We left Canada on the 11th, everything was fine.
I mean, there were certainly rumblings, but we were allowed to leave the country, we were allowed to get a visitor’s permit upon entering Nepal,” said Sitwell.
At the time, there were no travel restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sitwell travelled to Nepal from Ontario, with a friend, to climb Mount Everest. “My mom is very athletic … and