Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak had been climbing Chaukhamba mountain when they issued an SOS on Thursday

A British mountaineer and her American companion who had been stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food have been rescued.

Fay Manners, 37, and Michelle Dvorak, 31, had been climbing the Chaukhamba mountain in northern India, when they issued an SOS message on Thursday, with nothing further being heard from them.