Santa Fe medic leads rescue team in quake-stricken Nepal

The government was asking members of Lustig’s Global Outreach Doctors to go to the Langtang Valley. If he could find a helicopter, it might take 45 minutes. If not, the trip would be seven hours by vehicle, assuming roads were passable.

“We understand there’s been no medical team there, and they’re asking us to go,” he said Sunday night in a telephone interview with The New Mexican.