Their prolonged wait since the June 17 deluge has failed to dampen their hopes of reuniting with their loved ones alive.
Holding the pictures of their missing family members and friends in their hands, they are searching for them from door to door in villages of the Kedarghati valley.
Even Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna's announcement that people who went missing after the tragedy will be presumed dead if they don't surface by tomorrow has failed to deter them.
Be it Anant Kulkarni from Maharashtra's Ahmednagar who lost 35 members of his team in the calamity or Pune resident Hemant Kulkarni, who lost track of 24 of his friends after the tragedy, all of them have a common tale to tell.
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Alok and Ashish Pandey, two brothers from a village near Kapilvastu in Nepal are camping in Rudraprayag since Friday.
Their parents were in Kedarnath on June 17 when the calamity struck.
The elderly couple were holding each other's hand when the deluge occurred but the stampede it triggered separated them. Their mother reached home but their father is still missing.
"The hope of reuniting with our father in one of these villages has brought us to Kedarghati," says Alok.