KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 11

As many as 82 tourists including foreigners who were stranded in Manang, a mountainous district, due to adverse weather, have been rescued on Tuesday.

Chief of the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Lekhnath Gautam, said the tourists were stranded because of adverse weather caused by incessant rainfall occurred since last week.

Among the total tourists, 73 are foreign and nine domestic ones.

The roadways are disrupted due to landslides, so helicopter was used for rescuing the tourists, Gautam added.

The tourists had reached Manang district via the Annapurna trail. They also had reached to the Himalayan areas of Gorkha and Upper Dolpa.