Two men pulled alive from Nepal tunnel 9 days after flood – rescuers share what they heard inside

At first, the rescuers thought the sound was only water moving through the darkness. Then they heard it again. A voice. Faint, distant, almost swallowed by the flooded passages of the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Project. For days, the tunnels had seemed less like a workplace than a tomb. A catastrophic rock-and-ice avalanche had sent destruction racing through the landscape, leaving mud, debris, damaged infrastructure, and terrifying uncertainty behind. Inside the hydropower complex, passages were flooded or obstructed, and every attempt to move deeper carried its own danger. Then, somewhere beyond the darkness, someone appeared to…