ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Two women missing for days in Denali National Park have been found and returned to park headquarters.

Park spokeswoman Kris Fister says the women were found Wednesday afternoon outside the park’s boundaries on the northern side.

A helicopter picked up the two shortly before 5 p.m., about an hour after the mother of one of the women received a second phone call from her daughter.

The pair, 23-year-old Erica Nelson of Las Vegas and 25-year-old Abby Flantz of Gaylord, Minn., were taken to park headquarters, where they were united with family members.

The two women embarked on an overnight hike last Thursday. A massive search began for them Saturday.