Bangladeshi Mount Everest conqueror Musa Ibrahim and his two Indian colleagues yesterday found some food after being trapped for six days at the base camp of Mount Carstensz Pyramid in Papua province of Indonesia.

“We got leftover food at the mountain and are surviving,” Musa sent a text message to his wife Ummey Sharaban Tahura using a satellite phone of fellow mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta.

Sharaban said she received the message at 1:30pm BST.

Musa, first Bangladeshi to summit Everest, Satyarup and Nandita Chandra Shekhar remained trapped at the base camp since June 13 due to bad weather after scaling the highest summit of Australia and Oceania (4,884 metre).

The trio, who were supposed to complete the mission by June 18, had been starving as their limited food stock ran out, Sharaban told The Daily Star on Saturday, citing a text message of her husband.

A second attempt in two days to rescue them by a chartered helicopter was called off around 8:00am BST yesterday due to bad weather, both Sharaban and Mohammed Rafah, chief executive officer of Everest Academy founded by Musa, told this correspondent.

A team of rescuers boarding a helicopter from Indian tour operator Cox and Kings were supposed to rescue them. But it was called off for the second time around 4:00am (BST), they added.

Earlier, Rafah forwarded a text message of Musa to this correspondent at 6:08am in which he had written, “Weather is good now … Hope to be evacuated.”

Sharaban has called upon the Bangladesh embassy in Indonesia to manage an army helicopter that can operate in bad weather.

Both Sharaban and Rafah said the helicopter of the private tour operator would probably make a fresh attempt today to rescue the three if the weather favours.

The trio came down to the base camp safely after conquering the mountain on June 13.

But they got trapped there due to bad weather. Later Nandita fell sick and they faced starvation, Sharaban and Rafah had told The Daily Star. 

On June 17, the first rescue mission by a helicopter was called off due to rough weather, Sharaban told The Daily Star quoting a text message sent by Musa.

Musa left Dhaka on May 30 for his new expedition 'Bangladesh-India Friendship' to scale the Carstensz Pyramid.

He along with the two Indian mountaineers -- Satyarup and Nandita -- began the expedition on June 1.