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. “They had been trapped there for 47 days when we reached,” he said. Doctors treating Liang said he had lost 30kg and maggots had infested his right leg. The couple survived on potatoes and noodles until they ran out of food and had to keep going on water alone. Liang’s father had travelled to Nepal after the couple went missing and chartered a helicopter to search for them.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 00:22 UTC