MIRACULOUS SURVIVAL: Taiwanese trekker Liang Sheng-yueh (R), who was rescued alive after being stranded in the Himalayas for 47 days, celebrates his 22nd birthday in a hospital in Kathmandu. A Taiwanese trekker is recovering in hospital after rescuers found him and his dead girlfriend on a mountainside in Nepal where they were stranded for 47 days, surviving on only water and salt after their food ran out. — AFP