A video released by the Nepalese army shows one man, Sanjay Shah, being pulled out of a narrow, dark tunnel entrance. Images then show a second man, Kabir Maharjan, being carried away on a stretcher - covered in mud and with his hands clasped in prayer. Both have now been flown to the capital, Kathmandu, for treatment.
"I am so happy," Kabir Maharjan's brother told AFP.
The men - two of several hundred hydroelectric power workers missing since the disaster on August 26 - are said to have been trapped 170 metres inside the tunnel. Now, hope has been raised that more may be rescued.
"We are waiting for more people to be rescued," Nepal's Minister of Communications Bikram Timilsina wrote on Facebook.
Villages, roads, bridges and at least a dozen hydroelectric projects were buried in mud and debris when a huge mass of rock and ice collapsed in the Himalayas, near the Nepal-Tibet border, sending a powerful wave downstream through the Bhote Koshi River.
At least 1,200 people have been confirmed dead and over 5,000 are missing. Among the missing are more than 500 foreign tourists and pilgrims.
