In a remarkable story of survival, a Sherpa guide in Nepal was found alive on Mount Everest on Thursday after being missing for almost a week.
Although some of the circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear, hiking officials said he managed to survive in extremely dangerous conditions without food or oxygen.
What is known about the Sherpa disappearance and rescue?
Dawa Sherpa, also known as Hillary Dawa, is a man of about fifty who was last seen near Camp III on 29 May.
He was returning with a Polish climber after failing to climb the world’s highest peak, 8,849 meters (29,032 ft).
He is believed to have gone missing somewhere between Camp III and Camp IV and it is unclear how the pair became separated.
Lama Kazi Sherpa of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee said the claim was located by his team above the base camp near the dangerous Khumbu Icefall.
They managed to bring him down safely.
Khimlal Gautam, head of the Everest Base Camp Office of the Tourism Department, told the German news agency DPA that the news of Dawa Sherpa’s disappearance was received on May 30.
“We conducted an aerial search till the base camp yesterday, but we could not see him,” Gautam told dpa.
“It is a great relief and good news that he has come forward himself,” Gautam said.
Rescue delayed due to paperwork complications
According to Gautam, rescue efforts were delayed due to complications related to the expedition’s paperwork.
Dawa Sherpa “had obtained a permit through one company, but was climbing with another company. This created complications in the rescue process as rescue is an expensive operation,” he said.
“Dawa survived alone in the dangerous Khumbu Icefall for almost a week without food, water or supplemental oxygen (even after ladders were removed for the season),” the Nepal Mount Everest mountaineering company said in a social media post.
It said, “This is nothing less than a miracle.”
Nearly 1,000 climbers, including guides, climbed Mount Everest this season. At least five people have died while climbing one of the wonders of the natural world.
Edited by: Dmytro Lyubenko
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