A correspondent passes on the news that a 20-year-old Nepali sister who has gone missing in Estes Park, Colorado, for a week. The Rocky Mountain Friends of Nepal has an alert and contact phone numbers for anyone with information on the whereabouts of Pratishta Budathoki. Here is some background information from the Rocky Mountain News:

The 20-year-old was last seen about 9:30 a.m. Sunday as she left for a new job at the Munchin’ House, an ice cream parlor on the main drag of this tourist town.

Budhathoki headed out of her apartment door wearing a white Munchin’ House T-shirt, jeans and white shoes.

The woman, who doesn’t own a car and was walking, was carrying a black backpack, police said. But she left other valuables, such as her passport, at home, friends said.

Family members and friends said it is extremely uncharacteristic for Budhathoki to disappear without telling someone where she was going. Friends reported her missing Monday after becoming increasingly worried when she didn’t return home Sunday night. …

“She’s the kind of girl, if she’s late to work five minutes, she’ll give me a call,” said Ashwin Pandey, another Nepali friend and her boss at the Subway sandwich shop where Budhathoki has worked for the past two summers.

Khakurel said she last saw her friend about 2 a.m. Sunday when the two shared a cigarette at Budhathoki’s apartment. She said it didn’t seem like Budhathoki was depressed.

Budathoki is a student at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Her parents live in Kathmandu. There are contact numbers for her family and the Estes Park police department on both of the pages linked here.