Liang Sheng-yueh, 21, from Taiwan was trapped in a remote Nepal valley with his girlfriend but she died three days before rescuers found them
Liang Sheng-yueh in hospital in Kathmandu after being rescued from a remote mountainside. Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Thursday 27 April 2017 01.22 BSTLast modified on Thursday 27 April 2017 04.27 BST
Two Taiwanese trekkers who went missing in a remote area of Nepal seven weeks ago have been found – but only one survived the ordeal.
Liu Chen-chun, 19, died just three days before the rescue team located the couple in the Dhading region of central Nepal, but her boyfriend managed to survive despite running out of food.
Liang Sheng-yueh, 21, is being treated in hospital in Kathmandu where he was airlifted after being rescued from a valley 2,600 metres (8,500ft) above sea level, where the couple had been trapped for more than a month.
“He was sleeping when we found them,” said one of the rescuers, Madhav Basnyat.
“He woke up after he heard us. We were very surprised to find him alive. He said that the girl died three days earlier.”
Basnyat said the couple, who were found near Tipling in northern Dhading, had followed a river downhill in the hope of finding a village but became stuck when they reached the edge of a waterfall and were unable to climb back up.
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