Olena Kalynychenko was looking forward to sharing the chrysanthemum tea she had bought in China with her partner.
“She said, ‘When I come back home, we will drink the tea made from Chinese flowers,’” said Oles Visich, Kalynychenko’s partner. He has now been waiting for news about her for a month, after she and thousands of others disappeared in catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border.