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WATCH ABOVE: Calgary yoga instructor Tamara McLeod is on her way back to Canada.

CALGARY – Calgarian Tamara McLeod has been rescued from the village in Nepal where she was stranded following a deadly earthquake and ensuing avalanche.

McLeod, 24, was in the Langtang region in Nepal when the earthquake hit.

On Monday evening, McLeod contacted her family – crying and desperate for help – saying she was stranded with three other people.

On Wednesday, Tamara’s sister Michelle Dack posted an update to her Facebook page saying her sister was on her way to Nepal’s capital city.

“My mom had a phone call with my sister at one o’clock in the morning,” Dack told Global News in a phone interview. “Tamara was rescued from Briddhim (a village in northern Nepal) she was dropped in a town called Dunche… we know she’s walking to another town and then she’ll be getting a bus to Kathmandu.”

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“They’re trying to get her back to Canada either today – and if not, she’ll be able to stay with the Canadian Medical Assistance Teams in Kathmandu and she’ll be brought back tomorrow.”

Dack says they still have a big hurdle to overcome, as her sister’s passport is in a location in Kathmandu, and she might not be able to retrieve it.

“We’re probably going to set up a temporary passport for her to be able to get back to Canada.”

Dack says her family is “feeling so much gratitude to the Canadian Medical Assistance Teams, [and] so much gratitude to the Nepal army.”

“We’re so, so, so grateful. This is the best news we could have ever gotten.”

McLeod arrived in Nepal at the beginning of April to teach a yoga workshop.