article_snippet.sent: Quake relief efforts continued Tuesday, but officials warned that officials were hampered by problems of getting aid into Nepal and then delivering it to some of the remote communities in desperate need.
article_snippet.sent: The biggest problem is reaching these villages," Matt Darvas, an emergency communications officer for the humanitarian group World Vision, told CNN from Gorkha district, northwest of Kathmandu.
article_snippet.sent: Nepal struggles to cope with international aid .
article_snippet.sent: Nepali Home Ministry Joint Secretary Sagar Mani Parajuli, who is coordinating relief efforts, said government efforts to get aid to remote areas had been hampered by rugged terrain and poor weather, which limits the use of helicopters.
article_snippet.sent: Given Nepal's geographical terrain, we cannot use surface transport much but are using surface transport," Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said.
article_snippet.sent: McGoldrick, told a news conference Tuesday that bringing in relief materials has been difficult because Kathmandu's international airport, which has just one runway and space for only a limited number of aircraft to park, is log jammed.
article_snippet.sent: Even though aid groups and Nepalese officials are aware of critical situations in areas spread across Nepal's mountainous terrain, Even though aid groups and Nepalese officials are aware of critical situations in areas spread across Nepal's mountainous terrain face daunting challenges getting help to Even though aid groups and Nepalese officials are aware of critical situations in areas spread across Nepal's mountainous terrain.
article_snippet.sent: Some of those villages -- several years ago, before there was vehicle transport -- used to take seven days to reach.
article_snippet.sent: Roads are shut now to some of those villages, so we can only imagine how long it will take to get there," Darvas of World Vision said Monday.
highlights_snippet.sent: Shattered villages near epicenter are hard to reach, says aid worker in the area .
  