Actor Manasi Parekh has safely returned to Mumbai after being stranded amid devastating flash floods and landslides along the Nepal-China border while on Sadhguru's Isha Foundation's Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, a pilgrimage that turned into a harrowing ordeal following the disaster on August 26. Manasi returned home on Sunday, where she was met by her husband, singer Parthiv Gohil, and their daughter Nirvi, in an emotional airport reunion that was widely shared online, with videos showing the family in tears as they embraced after days of uncertainty.

Manasi had reportedly been untraceable in the immediate aftermath of the floods, causing concern among her family and fans as news of the disaster spread. She returned to Mumbai along with 93 other pilgrims who had traveled for the Yatra through the Isha Foundation, with the group reportedly out of contact for three to four days as the situation on the ground deteriorated. Speaking about the experience afterward, Manasi described the journey as extremely long and difficult, recounting how the group had entered China through a large immigration facility on the Tibet-Nepal border just seven days before disaster struck.

Detailing her escape, Manasi said a massive landslide in the Chinese town of Nyalam left her group stranded inside their bus for nearly four hours before they were able to continue. The journey that followed included a roughly 40-mile bus ride before the group reached the Nepal border, where they encountered another landslide and were forced to walk through the affected stretch on foot, since there was no other way to reach buses waiting on the other side. From there, the group endured what Manasi called the bumpiest bus ride of their lives during the four-hour journey to Kathmandu.

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In a social media post following her return, Manasi thanked well-wishers for their support, writing that the last three to four days had been overwhelming and that getting out of China and reaching the Nepal border "felt like winning a war." She credited the Isha Foundation with working to bring stranded pilgrims home safely and to locate others who remained missing in the aftermath of the disaster.

Manasi's ordeal unfolded against the backdrop of a much larger humanitarian crisis, as flash floods and landslides swept through the Nepal-Tibet border region following the glacial collapse, with reports indicating dozens of Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims remained missing in the disaster's early days and the death toll from the broader flooding continuing to climb. Her safe return offered a moment of relief amid the wider tragedy, even as rescue operations for others affected by the floods continued in the region.

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