KATHMANDU: Eleven domestic tourists, stranded at Tilicho Base Camp for five days due to heavy snowfall and continuous rain, have been successfully rescued.

The operation was carried out by the Mountain Rescue Team deployed from the Armed Police Force’s Mountain Rescue Training School (MRTS).

Among the rescued tourists, one had a leg injury, one was a nine-year-old child, one was a sick woman, and the rest were in generally stable condition.

All of them were reported to have low oxygen levels. The rescue operation was conducted over a difficult nine-hour journey along a narrow, steep path covered with two feet of snow.

Under the command of SP Top Bahadur Dangi, the medical and mountain rescue team from the training school used specialized mountain rescue gear and equipment to successfully complete this high-risk operation.

The tourists are now in stable condition and have been safely relocated. This fiscal year marked the first time the training school conducted a “High Altitude Search and Rescue Training”. During this program, 39 instructors and trainees successfully climbed Chulu Far East (6,038 meters) in mid-October.