Holly Gibbs

Jessica was airlifted to safety, but Molly the dog was missing and the chances of finding her were tiny.

After a nationwide crowdfunding campaign and the help of volunteers who refused to give up, Molly was rescued a week later.

Here's the moment that Molly and an injured Jessica were reunited.

The BBC's Julian Warwicker spoke to Lillian Newton from Precision Helicopters, the company that led this rescue mission.

It started off a week before, on the 24th of March, before Molly was found, where I got a text message from a friend of mine that another friend of theirs had fallen down a waterfall and that she'd lost her dog, Molly.

We are the closest helicopter business and the spot where she lost Molly is so remote.

It would take multiple days to walk in there and you'd have to be extremely experienced at walking in the alpine terrain.

So we took it upon us to look for Molly off our own backs and our own budget.

We took our helicopter out and looked for her, but we were unsuccessful.

We had three attempts and we'd had no luck.

So that's when we decided, I had a gut feeling she was still alive, that I would approach the public and see if anyone would be interested in helping us fund a mission.

Yes, I was overwhelmed.

I had a goal of $2,400 to fly the helicopter there and back.

And I looked at the account at nine o'clock at night and there was $11,500 there.

So I removed the bank account and told everyone to please stop donating.

It was going to get embarrassing.

My phone, it just wouldn't stop ringing.

I had so many people wanting to volunteer.

I decided to just stop at 10 because I didn't want too many people.

I had to be very careful that nobody else got injured in the process of trying to look for Molly.