10-year-old girl survives 24 hours in ‘rugged and remote’ Cascade mountains

Shunghla Mashwani was on a family outing when she went missing, but rescuers found her the next day in the wilderness

A 10-year-old girl is being praised for surviving on her own for more than 24 hours in the Cascade mountain range in Washington state.

Shunghla Mashwani lost track of her family on Sunday while crossing over a pedestrian bridge at the Cathedral Rock trailhead in the northern part of the Cle Elum River valley. That same day, she was reported missing.